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From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/15] prlimit: add warning diagnostic when attempting to change prlimit's limits
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:45:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111116124537.GD7916@nb.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EC0735B.2010504@bernhard-voelker.de>

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 02:48:11AM +0100, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> +		if (lims[i].modify) {
> +			if (!pid)
> +				warnx(_("setting limits of the prlimit process is pointless"));

 Well, I don't think that we want such warnings in our utils :-) Let's
 inform users about errors, the rest should be described in man pages.

 Anyway, it would be nice to have something like:

    prlimit --nofile=1000 /bin/program

 so somewhere after show_limits() should be exec().
    
        Karel

-- 
 Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>
 http://karelzak.blogspot.com

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-16 12:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-14  1:48 [PATCH 04/15] prlimit: add warning diagnostic when attempting to change prlimit's limits Bernhard Voelker
2011-11-16 12:45 ` Karel Zak [this message]
2011-11-16 15:05   ` Bernhard Voelker
2011-11-16 15:55     ` Karel Zak
2011-11-16 15:05   ` Bernhard Voelker

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