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- From: rgp@mpd.tandem.com (Ramon Pantin)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: ulimit()
- Message-ID: <2272@devnull.mpd.tandem.com>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 05:25:00 GMT
- References: <1992Aug13.091855.28615@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <10955@platypus.uofs.uofs.edu>
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- In article <10955@platypus.uofs.uofs.edu> bill@platypus.uofs.edu writes:
- >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.
- >
- >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
-
- I agree, brain damaged. Just as brain damaged as BSD's setrlimit(2),
- readv(2), writev(2), job control, and all the other useless stuff.
- Just as brain damaged as the sig*(2), priocntl(2) and all the other
- madness in SVR4 or all the efforts of standardizing the heck out of
- unimplemented stuff in POSIX, ANSI-C++, X/Open, OSI, ...
- Not to mention editors and window managers that require megabytes
- just to be able to crawl (they never seem to "run").
-
- It would seem that nobody learned anything from UNIX (except for
- the Plan 9 folks, of course).
- Where did the thrive for simplicity, coherency and minimalism go ?
-
- Ramon Pantin
-