Re: 2.4.8 Resource leaks + limits

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 15 Aug 2001 12:40:03 +0100 (BST)


> Linux has had (for a while now) a "struct user" that is actually quickly
> accessible through a direct pointer off every process that is associated
> with that user, and we could (and _will_) start adding these kinds of
> limits. 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.

For that to work we need to seperate struct user from the uid a little, or
provide heirarchical pools (which seems overcomplex). Its common to want
to take a group of users (eg the chemists) and give them a shared limit
rather than per user limits

Alan
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