From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [git pull] pull request for writable limits for 2.6.34-rc0
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:04:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BAA461E.7090907@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1003201207160.18017@i5.linux-foundation.org>
On 03/20/2010 08:20 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I'd also like to hear more about actual uses. Does _any_ other Unix-like
> system actually implement this writable limits thing?
I'm currently not aware of any. Will do some research if that matters.
> Who is asking for it?
The scenario I described in the pull request is true, SAP requested that.
thanks,
--
js
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-24 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-07 16:52 [PULL] pull request for writable limits for 2.6.33-rc1 Jiri Slaby
2009-12-09 19:25 ` [PULL] pull request for writable limits for 2.6.33-rc0 Jiri Slaby
2009-12-11 11:05 ` [git pull -resend] " Jiri Slaby
2009-12-23 9:40 ` Jiri Slaby
2010-01-02 21:40 ` [PULL] " Jiri Kosina
2010-01-02 21:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-01-04 21:59 ` Jiri Kosina
2010-01-04 10:47 ` [PULL] pull request for limits FIXES for 2.6.33-rc Jiri Slaby
2010-01-04 10:48 ` [PATCH 1/3] SECURITY: selinux, fix update_rlimit_cpu parameter Jiri Slaby
2010-01-05 15:50 ` David Howells
2010-01-04 10:48 ` [PATCH 2/3] resource: move kernel function inside __KERNEL__ Jiri Slaby
2010-01-04 10:48 ` [PATCH 3/3] resource: add helpers for fetching rlimits Jiri Slaby
2010-03-05 16:53 ` [git pull] pull request for writable limits for 2.6.34-rc0 Jiri Slaby
2010-03-20 19:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-21 1:45 ` Neil Horman
2010-03-21 6:06 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-03-21 18:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-24 17:02 ` Jiri Slaby
2010-04-14 9:31 ` Jiri Slaby
2010-05-05 12:12 ` Resource limits interface proposal [was: pull request for writable limits] Jiri Slaby
2010-05-05 15:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-06 6:39 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-05-06 15:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-07 8:55 ` [PATCH 01/11] rlimits: security, add task_struct to setrlimit Jiri Slaby
2010-05-07 8:55 ` [PATCH 02/11] rlimits: add task_struct to update_rlimit_cpu Jiri Slaby
2010-05-07 8:55 ` [PATCH 03/11] rlimits: make sure ->rlim_max never grows in sys_setrlimit Jiri Slaby
2010-05-07 8:55 ` [PATCH 04/11] rlimits: split sys_setrlimit Jiri Slaby
2010-05-07 8:55 ` [PATCH 05/11] rlimits: allow setrlimit to non-current tasks Jiri Slaby
2010-05-07 8:55 ` [PATCH 06/11] rlimits: do security check under task_lock Jiri Slaby
2010-05-07 8:55 ` [PATCH 07/11] rlimits: add rlimit64 structure Jiri Slaby
2010-05-07 8:55 ` [PATCH 08/11] rlimits: redo do_setrlimit to more generic do_prlimit Jiri Slaby
2010-05-07 8:55 ` [PATCH 09/11] rlimits: switch getrlimit to do_prlimit Jiri Slaby
2010-05-07 9:02 ` [PATCH v2 09/11] rlimits: switch more rlimit syscalls " Jiri Slaby
2010-05-07 9:05 ` Jiri Slaby
2010-05-07 8:55 ` [PATCH " Jiri Slaby
2010-05-07 8:55 ` [PATCH 10/11] rlimits: implement prlimit64 syscall Jiri Slaby
2010-05-07 8:55 ` [PATCH 11/11] unistd: add __NR_prlimit64 syscall numbers Jiri Slaby
2010-05-06 15:46 ` Resource limits interface proposal [was: pull request for writable limits] Jiri Slaby
2010-03-24 17:04 ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
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