linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] apparently broken RLIMIT

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFy8TAeeTA0YVRs8w=MjUC0idvNqB+9BcLWVLPw_LEQajg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 6 Oct 2013 13:42:05 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] apparently broken RLIMIT_CORE

On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
>         In other words, the size of notes section is ignored for
> RLIMIT_CORE purposes.  Is that intentional?

I doubt it is intentional, but I also cannot really feel that we care
deeply. Afaik we don't really honor the size limit exactly anyway, ie
we tend to check only at page boundaries etc. So do we really care?

               Linus
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