On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
<[email protected]> wrote:
> In the above scenario, ulimit would apply that limit to everything
> within that forked supervisord instance, correct?
>
> Therefore, if nginx-wrapper calls ulimit at almost the exact same
> point as other-wrapper, there could be a race condition between the
> time it takes to jump from ulimit to the binary, where the wrong
> address space is inherited.

if nginx-wrapper and other-wrapper is each one a different process,
then ulimit would affect only to that process and descendants.  it
doesn't propagate to brother-processes

besides, this is posix we're talking about; there are no race
conditions in calling executables or atomic system calls

-- 
Javier

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