Re: [RFC PATCH] tmpfs: support user quotas

From: Lennart Poettering
Date: Mon Nov 07 2011 - 18:07:17 EST


On Mon, 07.11.11 22:53, Alan Cox (alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> Per user would be quota, per process would be rlimit. Quite simple
> really, nice standard interfaces we've had for years. Various systems

Uh, have you ever really looked at resource limits? Some of them are
per-user, not per-process, i.e. RLIMIT_NPROC. And this would just be
another one.

Lennart

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