linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] tmpfs: support user quotas

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Date:	Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:33:55 -0500
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	kay.sievers@...y.org
CC:	mzxreary@...inter.de, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, dave@....org,
	hch@...radead.org, hughd@...gle.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] tmpfs: support user quotas

(11/7/2011 5:37 PM), Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 23:15, KOSAKI Motohiro
> <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
>> (11/7/2011 6:30 AM), Lennart Poettering wrote:
> 
>> If you want per-user limitation, RLIMIT is bad idea. RLIMIT is only inherited
>> by fork. So, The api semantics clearly mismatch your usecase.
> 
> Like RLIMIT_NPROC?

I suggest to don't follow useless interfaces.

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