Re: 2.4.8 Resource leaks + limits

Ulrich Drepper (drepper@redhat.com)
14 Aug 2001 22:42:11 -0700


Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:

> However, part of the problem is that because the limits haven't
> historically existed, there is also no accepted and nice way of
> setting the limits.

This should be the least of the problems. Simply add new RLIMIT_*
values[1] (and possibly [gs]etrlimit64 syscalls). The shell's ulimit
command can easily pick those up. Non-standard, but every other
solution will be, too.

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