Re: do the resource limits still work?

Stefan Vogtner (Stefan.Vogtner@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de)
Mon, 09 Jun 1997 16:34:24 +0200

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Nikita Schmidt wrote:
>
> Plain memory allocation only changes the process' virtual memory size.
> Data segment size and stuff does not change until the memory is really
> allocated (paged in).
>
> Nikita

You may try to allocate and then *write* into that memory. You will see
that 2.0.29/2.0.0 allow accessing memory larger than the respective
resource limits.

Stefan

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