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From: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Another Annoying Microport Inquiry
Message-ID: <4419@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 13:32:51 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  9 13:32:51 1987
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Reply-To: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
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Keywords: Microport patch ulimit
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>patch /system5 ulpatch xxx
>
>where xxx is the max filesize IN BLOCKS.  Currently this must be less than
>32000, this problem has been fixed in 2.3.

Hopefully this is "fixed" by allowing a ulimit of 0, which indicates NO
LIMIT AT ALL!  V7 could handle HUGE files (via triple indirect
blocks).  A file limit of 8 Meg or 16 Meg is STUPID!  Does anyone know
why AT&T botched System V this way?