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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc7 2/2] New Syscall: set rlimits of any process
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Gwe, 2005-08-26 at 05:39 +0200, Wieland Gmeiner wrote:
> This is the second of two patches, it implements the setprlimit()
> syscall.
> 
> Implementation: This patch provides a new syscall setprlimit() for
> writing a given process resource limits for i386. Its implementation
> follows closely the setrlimit syscall. It is given a pid as an


While looking at this have you considered 64bit rlimits on a 32bit box.
If a new API is going to be added it would be a good time to fix the
fact that some limits should be 64bit nowdays and have 

setrlimit()		existing legacy/standards API
setprlimit64()		with size fixed and ability to specify process

Any thoughts on this ?