Re: [PATCH 2/4] posix-timers: limit the number of posix timers perprocess

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:47:47 -0700
Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> > Yes, deployment for new rlimits is a big PITA.  It would be sensible to
> > modify the shells to take some anonymous numeric argument, so you could
> > do
> >
> > 	ulimit 42 1000
> >
> > to set rlimit number 42 if your shell version doesn't understand the
> > symbolic representation of more recent additions.  Who do I call?
> 
> I guess sending a patch to the bash maintainers?
> 

That would help ;)  And all the other shells :(

It would be worth going back and taking another look at the writable
/proc/<pid>/limits patches (http://lwn.net/Articles/365732/).  Why
didn't that work get merged?
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