On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 00:07:12 +0100 Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 07.11.11 22:53, Alan Cox (alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > Per user would be quota, per process would be rlimit. Quite simple > > really, nice standard interfaces we've had for years. Various systems > > Uh, have you ever really looked at resource limits? Some of them are > per-user, not per-process, i.e. RLIMIT_NPROC. And this would just be > another one. NPROC is a bit of an oddity. And the standards have no idea how a resource limit hit for an fs would be reported, nor how an app installer would check for it. Quota on the other hand is defined behaviour. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>