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Hi! > > > When a new process is created, the process inherits the coremask > > > setting from its parent. It is useful to set the coremask before > > > the program runs. For example:> > > > > > $ echo 1 > /proc/self/coremask > > > $ ./some_program> >> > User can already ulimit -c 0 on himself, perhaps we want to use same > > interface here? ulimit -cmask=(bitmask)?> > Are you saying that 1) it is good to change ulimit (shell programs) > so that shell programs will read/write /proc/self/coremask when > the -cmask option is given to ulimit?> Or, 2) it is good to change ulimit and get/setrlimit so that shell > programs will invoke get/setrlimit with new parameter? I'm trying to say 2). > If the changes are acceptable to bash or other shell community, I think > the first approach is nice.> But the second approach is problematic because the bitmask doesn't > conform to the usage of setrlimit. You know, setrlimit controls amount > of resources the system can use by the soft limit and hard limit. > These limitations don't suit for the bitmask. Well, you can have it as set of 0-1 "limits"... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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