Re: [RFC] apparently broken RLIMIT_CORE

2013-10-06 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Al Viro wrote: > > Objections? No objections, my comment was more of a "probably nobody cares" rather than much of an objection to you deciding you care enough to fix it.. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: [RFC] apparently broken RLIMIT_CORE

2013-10-06 Thread Al Viro
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 01:42:05PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Al Viro 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 th

Re: [RFC] apparently broken RLIMIT_CORE

2013-10-06 Thread Ulrich Drepper
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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? I could imagine in the case A

Re: [RFC] apparently broken RLIMIT_CORE

2013-10-06 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Al Viro 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