Re: [PATCH v10 4/4] cgroups: implement the PIDs subsystem

Aleksa Sarai
2015-05-13T17:44:24Z

>> Would you be okay with this?
>>
>> if (limit < 0 || limit >= PIDS_MAX)
>>
>> I'd prefer if we used PIDS_MAX as the maximum input value as well as
>> being the internal representation of the maximum, rather than
>> switching to something like INT_MAX.
>
> Yeah, that sounds okay to me but I forgot why we went for INT_MAX in
> the first place. Do you remember why we tried INT_MAX at all?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> tejun

I think it's because we didn't want to expose PIDS_MAX to userspace.
But we're not *really* exposing it, we're just enforcing the input
limit for "max".

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Aleksa Sarai (cyphar)