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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: setrlimit always fails
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 21:06:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1c233bc7-401b-568f-36d5-48c4f1d4dcea@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b0924bcb-56d0-a026-84b5-71750537facb@fexl.com>

On 2/11/2021 10:23 AM, Patrick Chkoreff wrote:
> I'm trying to use setrlimit to impose limits on various resources such
> as CPU time and memory.  The call to setrlimit always fails.  I've
> distilled this into the following example test.c:
[...]
>      if (setrlimit(RLIMIT_CPU,&rlim) < 0)
[...]
> setrlimit: Invalid argument

Cygwin's setrlimit only supports a few resources, as you can see in the source:

https://cygwin.com/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=blob;f=winsup/cygwin/resource.cc;h=97777e9d223466b7635b990d6c9e0bfb9e2e9a46;hb=HEAD#l201

Ken


  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-12  2:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-11 15:23 Patrick Chkoreff
2021-02-12  2:06 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2021-02-12  7:26   ` Brian Inglis
2021-02-12  9:12     ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-02-12 18:56       ` Brian Inglis
2021-02-12 20:38         ` Brian Inglis
2021-02-12 15:11   ` Patrick Chkoreff
2021-02-15  9:14     ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-02-15 19:54       ` Patrick Chkoreff
2021-02-15 20:48         ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-02-16 14:53           ` Patrick Chkoreff
2021-02-16 15:22             ` Marco Atzeri
2021-02-16 18:33               ` Brian Inglis
2021-02-12  9:11 ` Corinna Vinschen

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