Re: [TRIVIAL] Re: setrlimit incorrectly allows hard limits to exceed soft limits

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Fri Dec 06 2002 - 08:07:00 EST

Next message: Rudmer van Dijk: "[PATCH] kill warning"
Previous message: Ingo Molnar: "Re: what's the relationship between tgid, tid and pid ?"
In reply to: Rusty Trivial Russell: "[TRIVIAL] Re: setrlimit incorrectly allows hard limits to exceed soft limits"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Rusty Trivial Russell wrote:

> > Just try "ulimit -H -m 10000" for memory limits that were not
> > previously set. You end up with (hard limit = 10000) < (soft limit =
> > unlimited).

> + if (new_rlim.rlim_cur > new_rlim.rlim_max)
> + return -EINVAL;

Wouldn't it be better to simply take the soft limit down
to min(new_rlim.rlim_cur, new_rlim.rlim_max) ?

regards,

Rik

-- 
A: No.
Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
http://www.surriel.com/		http://guru.conectiva.com/
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Next message: Rudmer van Dijk: "[PATCH] kill warning"
Previous message: Ingo Molnar: "Re: what's the relationship between tgid, tid and pid ?"
In reply to: Rusty Trivial Russell: "[TRIVIAL] Re: setrlimit incorrectly allows hard limits to exceed soft limits"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sat Dec 07 2002 - 22:00:26 EST