Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: "per-process" limits (was: Showstopper list) | Date | Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:51:31 -0300 | From | Paul Barton-Davis <> |
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>Alan Cox writes: >> user-level limits are a great thing, I don't think that user ID should >> be the starting point for implementing a limit system. Instead, you > >Nothing says the luid matches the uids. It does in SCO, but Im treating >it as an arbitary charge number - its your departmental code for accounting >or whatever.
Sorry, I wasn't clear. All I meant was that its better not to try to start implementing a limits scheme based on the idea that the limits apply to *some* kind of user ID (luid, euid, etc.), since this is restrictive. Better to start with a mechanism that makes no reference to a "user" (thus allowing limits to be placed even on entirely kernel side tasks), and then layer the user stuff on top. IMHO, anyway.
--p
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