Re: Simple DoS...out of resources?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 10 Mar 1999 13:55:50 +0000 (GMT)


> man ulimit on my system ( kernel 2.2) says that the system call is
> undocumented/unimplemented. i grepped thru the source code only to
> discover that ulimit is not implemented.
> i need the information for a project i am working on. any help,
> suggestions appreciated.

ulimit is a prehistoric Sys5 call. Linux uses the more modern

getrlimit()
setrlimit()

calls and doesnt emulate ulimit() in the kernel

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