linux-kernel - Re: rlim in proc/<pid>/status

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Date:	Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:15:06 +0100
From:	Clifford Wolf <clifford@...fford.at>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: rlim in proc/<pid>/status

Hi,

On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 07:47:22PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> sound good for me.
> a few question please.
> 
> > +	for (i=0; i<RLIM_NLIMITS; i++) {
> > +		if (rlim_names[i])
> > +			buffer += sprintf(buffer, "Rlim%s:\t", rlim_names[i]);
> > +		else
> > +			buffer += sprintf(buffer, "Rlim%d:\t", i);
> 
> this else is really necessary?

no. not with the current sources. maybe something like the following would
be better:

#if RLIM_NLIMITS != 15
#  error New RLIM_NLIMITS add mising entries to rlim_names[]
#endif

> > +		if (rlim[i].rlim_cur != ~0)
> > +			buffer += sprintf(buffer, "%lu\t", rlim[i].rlim_cur);
> > +		else
> > +			buffer += sprintf(buffer, "-\t");
> > +		if (rlim[i].rlim_max != ~0)
> > +			buffer += sprintf(buffer, "%lu\n", rlim[i].rlim_max);
> > +		else
> > +			buffer += sprintf(buffer, "-\n");
> 
> Why do you don't use RLIM_INFINITY?

because I'm blind and didn't see it... ;-)

maybe it would also be better to output 'inf' instead of '-' in this case?

yours,
 - clifford

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