Re: Ulimit Probrems with Linux

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
22 Aug 1998 08:16:56 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96dg4.980821193611.26012Q-100000@twinlark.arctic.org>
By author: Dean Gaudet <dgaudet-list-linux-kernel@arctic.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On linux you have to use RLIMIT_AS, RLIMIT_DATA is useless. This is a
> conspiracy between the kernel and libc to produce a bug... whose fault it
> is you can debate. But unix98 does say that RLIMIT_DATA affects memory
> allocated by malloc() ... it just doesn't count mmap(). Too bad malloc
> uses mmap.
>
> Dean
>

Sounds like malloc() should pass a nonstandard mmap() flag which makes
it could towards RLIMIT_DATA.

-hpa

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