Proposed platform assumption changes

[Russ Allbery]

"Roland C. Dowdeswell" <elric at imrryr.org> writes:

> Another example would be a process which has a data limit set via
> setrlimit(2).  Again, in this case, the process would be limited to a
> reasonable amount of memory and the OS would not necessarily be placed
> into the position where more memory had been allocated than it had swap
> to back.

Yes, having a memory limit imposed with setrlimit is not unknown in web
hosting environments, for example.  We do it in our sandbox CGI
environment.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>