Martin Sebor wrote:
Andrew Black wrote:
Greetings all.
I have started looking at what would be required to implement the child
process limits logic and child process statistic gathering functionality
in the exec utility on Windows.
The research I have done indicates that it is possible to accomplish
both tasks using the job object API (
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dllproc/base/job_objects.asp ).
I assume you're looking at this API because it lets you gather
process statistics for not just the child process but also for
the grandchildren, correct? If so, I'm not sure such a total
would be more interesting than the times for just the child
alone (i.e., the Windows analogue of struct rusage obtained
by the getrusage() call, which I think is GetProcessTimes()).
The main reason I was looking at the job API was so that an analog to
the ulimit switch could be added on the windows side. I don't know how
important this is, but my thinking was that it should be considered if
we wished to try to maintain some kind of feature parity between windows
and the rest of the operating systems.
--Andrew Black
