From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752020Ab0CXREf (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:04:35 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f223.google.com ([209.85.220.223]:53093 "EHLO mail-fx0-f223.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750760Ab0CXREe (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:04:34 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=JN9u5b+O1S5ay4qTH1mHkEuFPsyizE9TM2jstyuJK8kJH4snO3CEzXBVfpHRfRf3KU TDHiviubDydqtNywBXcMhPeY4d27W1RWnY7QDcYxO9LQU7Of7AxDanNbCUt2Ir8PcZmA R3ACuWqTeFMIa5ZgiciH5OytvYfRe+t+St6Hc= Message-ID: <4BAA461E.7090907@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:04:30 +0100 From: Jiri Slaby User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; cs-CZ; rv:1.9.2.2pre) Gecko/20100308 SUSE/3.1b1-5.9 Thunderbird/3.1b1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: LKML , Neil Horman , Oleg Nesterov Subject: Re: [git pull] pull request for writable limits for 2.6.34-rc0 References: <4B1D32D1.4090404@gmail.com> <4B9136F4.4010007@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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