(mail to Heiko Schlittermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is bouncing; upon investigation you two appear to be mentioned in and around lshell so I'm sending this email to you and Cc:ing it to debian-devel for anyone else's perusal)
Hi, I have code based on lshell, which you maintain for Debian, that implements the functionality as a shared object. I.e. you add a line such as /lib/rlimit.so to /etc/ld.so.preload, and you get magic support for resource limits in every dynamic executable. The code is based on lshell 2.01 but needs some polishing to come be able to parse the now-become-standard /etc/limits file. I was wondering if I do this (a trivial amount of work), are you interested in releasing a new lshell package in Debian? We may want to call it something else, or just give it a new version number. I don't believe any development has been done on lshell since 1996 so I think it's safe to say we can do that. (The reason I am writing now is that 3 years after I last touched this code, a friend has asked me for this exact functionality, which does not seem to exist in any other piece of software for linux.) You can see the obvious advantage in using code such as this; it makes it almost impossible to get around the limit settings by the user. Let me know what you think. Martin -- Martin Lucina http://www.kotelna.sk/mato/ Wellington, New Zealand I've always been mad I know I've been mad like the most of us are Pretty hard to explain why you're a madman even if you're not mad