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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Ville Herva <vherva@niksula.hut.fi>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: getrlimit for an arbitrary process?
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 22:14:11 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0311022213140.28000-100000@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031102090505.GB9015@niksula.cs.hut.fi>

On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Ville Herva wrote:

> Is there a way to query/set getrlimit/setrlimit for an arbitrary process?

Nope, rlimits only work on the current process
(and a few of them work on the current UID).

> Couldn't find it under /proc, at least on 2.4.x.

Good idea for 2.7, though we might as well go
all the way and set up more arbitrary resource
groups.

Take a look at http://ckrm.sourceforge.net/  ;)

-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan


  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-03  3:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-02  9:05 getrlimit for an arbitrary process? Ville Herva
2003-11-03  3:14 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2003-11-03  6:22   ` Ville Herva

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