From: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
To: <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Eugene Syromyatnikov <evgsyr@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] getrlimit.2: old_getrlimit/ugetrlimit and RLIM_INFINITY discrepancies
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2021 15:10:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210708131054.o4sgoy7barhl3kmu@jwilk.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210708121713.GA15864@asgard.redhat.com>
* Eugene Syromyatnikov <evgsyr@gmail.com>, 2021-07-08, 14:17:
>+Original Linux implementation used signed types for limits; that was changed
>+(along with the value of the
>+.B RLIM_INFINITY
>+constant)
>+.\" http://repo.or.cz/davej-history.git/blobdiff/129f8758d8c41e0378ace0b6e2f56bbb8a1ec694..15305d2e69c3a838bacd78962c07077d2821f255:/include/linux/resource.h
>+during 2.4 development cycle, as it wasn't compatible
Oh, interesting.
That would explain why the man page incorrectly claims the upper limit
for RLIMIT_AS is 2 GiB on 32-bit systems.
>+Also worth noting that Several architectures decided not to change
s/Several/several/;
or maybe s/Also worth noting that //.
--
Jakub Wilk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-08 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-08 12:17 [PATCH v2] getrlimit.2: old_getrlimit/ugetrlimit and RLIM_INFINITY discrepancies Eugene Syromyatnikov
2021-07-08 13:10 ` Jakub Wilk [this message]
2021-07-29 15:24 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
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