Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:06:43 -0800 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] show RLIMIT_SIGPENDING usage in /proc/PID/status |
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* Roland McGrath (roland@redhat.com) wrote: > > Two questions: 1) This changes the interface for consumers of > > /proc/[pid]/status data, do we care? Adding new line like this should be > > safe enough. > > As far as I can tell, noone fretted about the addition of Threads:, > ShdPnd:, etc., which were not always there.
Sounds good ;-)
> > 2) Perhaps we should do /proc/[pid]/rlimit/ type dir for each value? > > This has been asked for before. > > Is the request to see the limit settings, or the current usage, or both? > What kind of format are you suggesting? I don't see a need for something > with a million little files. Also, for some of the limits the correct > current usage count is not trivial to ascertain. (And for others like > RLIMIT_FSIZE and RLIMIT_CORE, it is of course not meaningful at all.)
Probably just one file per rlimit with usage, cur, max.
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