From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753181Ab1H3WsA (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:48:00 -0400 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:1993 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752533Ab1H3Wr7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:47:59 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.67,351,1309762800"; d="scan'208";a="43553833" Message-ID: <4E5D6893.5010505@linux.intel.com> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:47:47 -0700 From: Andi Kleen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] posix-timers: limit the number of posix timers per process References: <1314661157-22173-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> <1314661157-22173-2-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> <20110830144407.acdae071.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4E5D5EE6.3070708@linux.intel.com> <20110830152216.dffd3cc3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20110830152216.dffd3cc3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Yes, deployment for new rlimits is a big PITA. It would be sensible to > modify the shells to take some anonymous numeric argument, so you could > do > > ulimit 42 1000 > > to set rlimit number 42 if your shell version doesn't understand the > symbolic representation of more recent additions. Who do I call? I guess sending a patch to the bash maintainers? -Andi