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From: ballou@brahms.Berkeley.EDU (Kenneth R. Ballou)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Another Annoying Microport Inquiry
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Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 20:53:29 EDT
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In article <216@eurifb.UUCP> wietse@eurifb.UUCP (Wietse Venema) writes:
>In article <520@drexel.UUCP>, rickers@drexel.UUCP (Rick Wargo) writes:
>> According to the Microport release notes, you cannot have an "infinite" 
>> ulimit. The maximum is about 16 Meg (~ 32000 blocks)
>> I have yet to try raising it above what they say is the max.  Who knows
>> what can happen?
>Don't do it or you must boot from the floppy and load a new kernel.
>At least, that is our experience with release 2.2.

	Yes, this makes perfect sense.  Most likely the type of the variable is
"int," so the maximum value is 32767.
Kenneth R. Ballou			ARPA:  ballou@brahms.berkeley.edu
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University of California
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