I have a buddy who encountered the "ulimit" confusion, when he and his team deployed Linux as the platform for a multi-user online programming test competition system.
And generally, i think the kernel/system shall work as it said(return of syscalls/output of commands) :) But rss limit might be a historical issue, with already many applications depending on it :( Stone Wang ----- Original Message ----- From: Andrew Morton To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;[EMAIL PROTECTED] ;linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux-2.6.11-rc5: kernel/sys.c setrlimit() RLIMIT_RSS cleanup Sent: Sun Feb 27 18:31:36 CST 2005 > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > $ ulimit -m 100000 > > bash: ulimit: max memory size: cannot modify limit: Function not > > implemented > > I don't know about this. The change could cause existing applications and > scripts to fail. Sure, we'll do that sometimes but this doesn't seem > important enough. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
