Re: [Haskell-cafe] setResourceLimit

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On May 5, 2009, at 04:52 , br...@lorf.org wrote:

I have a long-lived multithreaded server process that needs to execute
programs and interact with them via Handles. The programs could
misbehave, like loop or hang, so I need to limit the real and CPU time
they can take.

I guess System.Posix.Resource.setResourceLimit sets limits on the
current process, so I can't use it in the server process. Is it a good

setResourceLimit and executes the programs that could misbehave?

approach to write some utility program for the server to call that does

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brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allb...@kf8nh.com
system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allb...@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH

An alternative is to forkProcess and have the child setResourceLimit and then executeFile.

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