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From: bill@prijat.cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: ulimit()
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Date: 17 Aug 92 16:40:16 GMT
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In article <1992Aug13.091855.28615@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>, walter@insu1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de (Reiner Walter) writes:
|> I want to port the system call ulimit() from INTERACTIVE to BSD/386.
|> I couldn't find a similar system call for BSD/386.
|> Is ist possible to port this system call?

Why???
Most people stuck on SYSV spend most of their waking hours trying to 
find a way to do away with it.  What possible use could you have for 
something as limiting (or dare I say brain-dead) as ulimit??

bill

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