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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Cc: manfred@colorfullife.com, drepper@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] per-user signal pending and message queue limits
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 16:34:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040420163443.7347da48.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040420231351.GB13826@logos.cnet>

Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com> wrote:
>
> > The major advantage of your work is that we can now remove those limits. 
> > You'll be needing a 2.4 backport ;)
> 
> Yeap. :) 
> 
> And we also need to do the userspace part. ulimit is part of bash, so 
> probably all shell's should be awared of this? I never looked
> how "ulimit" utility works.

yup, the shells need to be changed, which is really awkward.  I was wrong
about how bash and zsh handle `ulimit 4 1024'.

Really the shells _should_ permit ulimit-by-number for this very reason.

Adding new ulimits is nice - it's a shame that the shells make it hard to
use.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-20 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-19 21:28 [PATCH] per-user signal pending and message queue limits Marcelo Tosatti
2004-04-19 22:49 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-04-20 14:13   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-04-20 18:05     ` Manfred Spraul
2004-04-20 20:04     ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-20 23:13       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-04-20 23:34         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-04-21 20:34           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-04-22  5:33             ` Manfred Spraul
2004-04-27 14:54               ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-04-27 18:09                 ` Manfred Spraul
2004-04-28 17:09                   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-04-28 21:03                     ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-29  1:33                     ` Chris Wright
2004-04-29 12:17                       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-04-29 19:58                         ` Chris Wright
2004-05-06  0:08                           ` Chris Wright
2004-05-06 12:09                             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-05-06 12:32                             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-05-07  0:56                               ` Chris Wright
2004-04-19 22:59 ` Andrew Morton

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