Re: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NETWORK) vs. prctl(???)

[Michael Stone]

Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 21:09, Michael Stone <michael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > That being said, I'm not wedded to the decision. Could you give me some
> > more specific examples of the kinds of changes in low-level userspace code
> > that you're worried about?
>
> As summarized in the paraphrased comment, it's a pain to deal with
> rlimit extensions.  It's easy enough to do all this using prctl() with
> the same semantics and without forcing any other code to be modified.
> I let others more competent to judge the usefulness.  But using rlimit
> as the interface is just plain wrong.

I still like the rlimit-based interface because I think it gives good intuition
about how to use the facility and about how it ought to be exposed to high-level
parts of userland but it certainly can't hurt to cook up a version based on
prctl() so that we can make a fair comparison of the two. 

I'll see what I can come up with.

Regards,

Michael
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