Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: "per-process" limits (was: Showstopper list) | Date | Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:47:51 -0300 | From | Paul Barton-Davis <> |
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>Dean Gaudet writes: >On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Paul Barton-Davis wrote: > >> "Per process" limits for anything under Linux are difficult to >> envisage in a world of multi-threaded processes. > >Share a pointer to struct process_limits. Another level of indirection >solves yet another problem...
Indeed. Except that I'm interested in a more general solution to the problem of the missing kernel abstraction. Linux currently has no notion of "a group of tasks"; such an abstraction is both useful for process limits, and lots of other things as well.
--p
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