linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] making /proc/<pid>/limits writable

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Date:	Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:53:44 +0900
From:	"KOSAKI Motohiro" <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	"Anders Johansson" <ajohansson@...e.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] making /proc/<pid>/limits writable

Hi Andres,

> Attached is a patch making the limits for a process writable, so it is
> possible to change the limits of a task other than current.
>
> There are many reasons why this is desirable. The core limit is to me the most
> important. If a process hangs, because of some sort of race condition that
> happens once in a blue moon, and ulimit -c is set to 0, it might take forever
> to reproduce. It would be nice to be able to change that limit dynamically, to
> be able to get a core dump.
>
> Other limits should also be settable, but for now I've only done core size.

Hmm..
I agree to your motivation.

but I have two objection.
 - this interface is slightly ugly. end user can't lean easily.
 - you don't write any documentation nor patch description about how to use.
   So, I needed to read source code for know about how to use.
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