root@uwspan.UUCP (Admin) (10/07/87)
+---- In <98@aimt.UUCP> Robert Breckinridge Beatie writes: | Now for a question of my own. Why in the world won't microport support ulimits | big enough to write files bigger than 16M? Unix supports files up to four | gigabytes. Why did they cripple microport this way? Does it have something to | do with the underlying hardware? Or were they trying to eliminate triply | indirect blocks in files? Does anyone have the scoop on this? +---- In the Official 2.3 release notes I got yesterday there is a comment that the ulimit bug which had limited files to 30000 blocks was fixed, and that now there is no limit on the value for ulimit. 2.3 fixes many of the existing kernel bugs: 9600 baud with no tss faults :-) 80287 exceptions now handled OK The clock is now accurate (and adjustable if you have a fast machine) NEC floppies (fast ones) now work reliably The basic interrupt latency was reduced considerably Shell Layers works - and more -