#!/bin/sh # # ulimit.hack: Create an intermediate program for use in # between kernel initialization and init startup. # This is needed on a 3b system if the standard CDLIMIT is # so small that the dumped Emacs file cannot be written. # This program causes everyone to get a bigger CDLIMIT value # so that the dumped Emacs can be written out. # # Users of V.3.1 and later should not use this; see etc/MACHINES # and reconfig your kernel's CDLIMIT parameter instead. # # Caveat: Heaven help you if you screw this up. This puts # a new program in as /etc/init, which then execs the real init. # cat > ulimit.init.c << \EOF main(argc, argv) int argc; char *argv[]; { ulimit(2, 262144L); /* "2" is the "set" command. */ /* 262,144 allows for 128Mb files to be written. */ /* If that value isn't suitable, roll your own. */ execv("/etc/real.init", argv); } EOF # # Compile it and put it in place of the usual init program. # cc ulimit.init.c -o ulimit.init mv /etc/init /etc/real.init mv ulimit.init /etc/ulimit.init ln /etc/ulimit.init /etc/init mv ulimit.init.c /etc/ulimit.init.c # to keep src for this hack nearby. chmod 0754 /etc/init exit 0 # # Upon system reboot, all processes will inherit the new large ulimit.