rlimit changes

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Fri Dec 10 07:56:00 GMT 1999


Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> writes:

|> Wel, then make the changes to the SPARC tree.  But since there is no
|> ugetrlimit syscalls the question is whether it was wanted there at
|> all.  The x86 is a special case since it actually allows 4GB memory
|> and more.  Is this true for SPARC? If not the kernel change is not
|> necessary at all and *will* (note: future tense!!!) be changed back.

SUS2 says that rlim_t is unsigned.  Will you ignore that?  This has
nothing to do with the kernel.

Andreas.

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