Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Sep 1999 17:26:32 -0700 | From | David Mosberger <> | Subject | Re: inconsistent resource limit checking |
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>>>>> On Fri, 10 Sep 1999 00:57:01 +0100 (BST), Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:
>> Perhaps it's unfortunate that the resource interface uses signed >> longs but I think it would be a mistake to change that now. So >> instead of changing the interface, I think it would be better to >> consistently use the kind of checking as implemented by >> sys_brk().
Alan> SUS requires we use an rlimit_t - and we should change it. The Alan> bugs it causes are worse than the cure
Ah, yes indeed. And it's an "unsigned" type, too. Is anyone working on fixing this for 2.3 then? Any idea of what kind of breakage to expect when changing RLIM_INIFINITY from LONG_MAX to ULONG_MAX?
--david
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