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(11/7/2011 5:37 PM), Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 23:15, KOSAKI Motohiro
> <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>> (11/7/2011 6:30 AM), Lennart Poettering wrote:
> 
>> If you want per-user limitation, RLIMIT is bad idea. RLIMIT is only inherited
>> by fork. So, The api semantics clearly mismatch your usecase.
> 
> Like RLIMIT_NPROC?

I suggest to don't follow useless interfaces.