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Re: rlimit changes


Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de> writes:

|> On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 10:01:31AM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
|> 
|> > |> Therefore I've so far enabled the versioning for the rlimit stuff only
|> > |> on x86.  If after the kernel change this is necessary for other
|> > |> platforms as well we still can make appropriate other changes.
|> > 
|> > *All* platforms have the change in the kernel.  It's platform
|> > *independent*!  You have now broken *all* other platforms!
|> 
|> As for MIPS, I don't care as the address space is limited to 2gb, therefore
|> we won't ever use the critical values.

If the RLIM_INFINITY gets arch dependent in the kernel then there won't be
any reason to use a different value in libc, but I didn't know that this
will happen when I wrote the lines above.

Andreas.

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SuSE Labs                                        completely different."
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