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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: ulimit
Message-ID: <17042@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 21 Apr 89 15:15:39 GMT
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The mistake is not the existence of ulimit (although there are those
who would argue this as well).  The mistake is that the default limit
is set to such a tiny value.  If the default limit were, say, 100
exabytes,% it would not be such a problem.

The default file size limit should be `unlimited'; sysadmins should
be able to raise and lower it, and users should be able to lower it.

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% This is not `100 8mm tape drives': `exa' is a metric unit.  If I have
  not got them backwards, the order is kilo, mega, giga, tera, peta,
  exa.  (In the other direction we have milli, micro, nano, pico,
  femto, atto.  These are abbreviated as k/M/G/T/P/E and m/u/n/p/f/a
  respectively.  And `b' is bits; `B' is bytes; `mb' is millibits.
  But I see my footnote has digressed.)
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