Thus spake Andrew Brown ("AB> ") sometime Today...

AB> (1) that sounds reasonable, but in practice, how many applications do
AB> you use that actually run up against the default soft limit of two
AB> megs?

Hm.  "cdrecord", regularly...
"mozilla" on occasion...
"gimp" from time to time...

There are quite a few apps which will chew up and spit out stack like
there's no tomorrow -- and they discover, once they hit that limit,
that they are quite correct in their assumptions.

				--*greywolf;
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"I didn't get where I am today without using NetBSD."