Re: [git pull] pull request for writable limits for 2.6.34-rc0

[Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>]

On 03/24/2010 06:02 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 03/21/2010 07:38 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> Or even just _one_ system call that takes two pointers, and can do an 
>> atomic replace-and-return-the-old-value, like 'sigaction()' does, ie 
>> something like
>>
>> 	int prlimit64(pid, limit, const struct rlimit64 *new, struct rlimit64 *old);
>>
>> wouldn't that be a nice generic interface?
> 
> Seconded. But should the limits be by default 64-bit even on 32-bit? I
> mean: switch 'struct limit' in signal_struct to 'struct rlimit64'? This
> would make the limits non-atomic on 32-bit. Oh, they are not already if
> reader wants both cur and max without any locks, but I'm not sure now
> what implications this will have (I haven't checked compilers, but I
> think a store of 00000001 0000000 in place of 00000000 ffffffff may
> result in a read of 00000001 ffffffff or alike). Or did I misunderstand you?

Maybe it is a silly question or you was just busy at that time?

thanks,
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js