On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 06:59:18 -0400
Neil Horman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Currently, there exists no method for a process to query the resource
> limits of another process. They can be inferred via some mechanisms but they
> cannot be explicitly determined. Given that this information can be usefull to
> know during the debugging of an application, I've written this patch which
> exports all of a processes limits via /proc/<pid>/limits.
I'm struggling with this a bit. Sure, it _might_ be handy on some
occasions to be able to get at this information. But I've never seen
anyone ask for it before, and it _is_ determinable by other means, if only
strace.
How do we justify adding yet more stuff to the kernel?
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