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From: dave@sea375.UUCP (David A. Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: ulimit (was: getty/login for callback)
Message-ID: <251@sea375.UUCP>
Date: 27 Apr 89 02:55:23 GMT
References: <4428@ihuxz.ATT.COM>
Organization: At Home in Seattle, WA
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From article <4428@ihuxz.ATT.COM>, by burris@ihuxz.ATT.COM (Burris):
> The ulimit has NOTHING to do with the assumption that users are stupid
> or malicious. It DOES however assume that people make mistakes. Do you
> know any programmer who has NEVER hacked up a quick program with an
> infinate loop?
Ulimit doesn't help at all if your infinite loop creates another file
on each pass. You could run out of inodes too!
-- 
	David A. Wilson
	uw-beaver!tikal!slab!sea375!dave