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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: ulimit
Message-ID: <10094@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 23 Apr 89 00:13:04 GMT
References: <180001@mechp10.UUCP> <13853@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> <797@twwells.uucp> <1034@quintus.UUCP> <17042@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <17042@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>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.

I don't know why ordinary users should be prohibited from raising
their own per-file size limit.  "ulimit" is not a quota system.