Re: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NETWORK) vs. prctl(???)

Ulrich Drepper
2009-12-13T05:20:37Z

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 21:09, Michael Stone <michael@laptop.org> wrote:
>> That being said, I'm not wedded to the decision. Could you give me some
>> more
>> specific examples of the kinds of changes in low-level userspace code that
>> you're worried about?

It was an accident that I sent the email privately.

As summarized in the paraphrased comment, it's a pain to deal with
rlimit extensions. It's easy enough to do all this using prctl() with
the same semantics and without forcing any other code to be modified.
I let others more competent to judge the usefulness. But using rlimit
as the interface is just plain wrong.