Re: [PATCH 04/15] prlimit: add warning diagnostic when attempting to change prlimit's limits

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On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 02:48:11AM +0100, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> +		if (lims[i].modify) {
> +			if (!pid)
> +				warnx(_("setting limits of the prlimit process is pointless"));

 Well, I don't think that we want such warnings in our utils :-) Let's
 inform users about errors, the rest should be described in man pages.

 Anyway, it would be nice to have something like:

    prlimit --nofile=1000 /bin/program

 so somewhere after show_limits() should be exec().
    
        Karel

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