Re: inconsistent resource limit checking

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 10 Sep 1999 00:57:01 +0100 (BST)

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> Perhaps it's unfortunate that the resource interface uses signed longs
> but I think it would be a mistake to change that now. So instead of
> changing the interface, I think it would be better to consistently use
> the kind of checking as implemented by sys_brk().

SUS requires we use an rlimit_t - and we should change it. The bugs it causes
are worse than the cure

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