From: "KOSAKI Motohiro" <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: "Anders Johansson" <ajohansson@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] making /proc/<pid>/limits writable
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:53:44 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2f11576a0807301353h2d31f021m22b34d3a67e830c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807302157.46261.ajohansson@suse.de>
Hi Andres,
> Attached is a patch making the limits for a process writable, so it is
> possible to change the limits of a task other than current.
>
> There are many reasons why this is desirable. The core limit is to me the most
> important. If a process hangs, because of some sort of race condition that
> happens once in a blue moon, and ulimit -c is set to 0, it might take forever
> to reproduce. It would be nice to be able to change that limit dynamically, to
> be able to get a core dump.
>
> Other limits should also be settable, but for now I've only done core size.
Hmm..
I agree to your motivation.
but I have two objection.
- this interface is slightly ugly. end user can't lean easily.
- you don't write any documentation nor patch description about how to use.
So, I needed to read source code for know about how to use.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-30 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-30 19:57 [PATCH] making /proc/<pid>/limits writable Anders Johansson
2008-07-30 20:53 ` KOSAKI Motohiro [this message]
2008-07-30 21:43 ` Jiri Slaby
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