Messages in this thread | | | From | Ulrich Drepper <> | Date | Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:20:13 -0800 | Subject | Re: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NETWORK) vs. prctl(???) |
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On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 21:09, Michael Stone <michael@laptop.org> wrote: >> That being said, I'm not wedded to the decision. Could you give me some >> more >> specific examples of the kinds of changes in low-level userspace code that >> you're worried about?
It was an accident that I sent the email privately.
As summarized in the paraphrased comment, it's a pain to deal with rlimit extensions. It's easy enough to do all this using prctl() with the same semantics and without forcing any other code to be modified. I let others more competent to judge the usefulness. But using rlimit as the interface is just plain wrong.
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