On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 02:22 -0300, Alberto Bertogli wrote:
Chasing a bug, I noticed that make sets RLIMIT_STACK to RLIM_INFINITY.
In Linux (since 2.6.25), that actually triggers a very subtle behaviour
change in the way the kernel manages the memory layout. While most
applications are
On Sun, 2010-07-18 at 14:40 -0300, Alberto Bertogli wrote:
The layout is decided by the kernel early, when the new process is being
created in execve(), and cannot be changed while running.
I did suspect as much: it seemed impossible (or at least highly
unlikely) for this to be changed during
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:54:56PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 02:22 -0300, Alberto Bertogli wrote:
Chasing a bug, I noticed that make sets RLIMIT_STACK to RLIM_INFINITY.
In Linux (since 2.6.25), that actually triggers a very subtle behaviour
change in the way the
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 02:40:19PM -0300, Alberto Bertogli wrote:
Peeking around the source browser I notice that the change that introduced
the setrlimit() you describe is commit 1.191, dated 2008-11-30, which is
post-3.81.
Seeing that, I tried the latest alpha release (3.81.90), and it
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 20:32 +0300, Ozkan Sezer wrote:
Hi: I submitted several small patches to savannah patch
tracker. That tracker looks like not being visited much,
so I thought that a notification here wouldn't hurt.
[patch #7240] cast const pointers to void* when feeding them to
