On Feb 11 10:23, 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:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <sys/resource.h>
>
> int main(void)
> {
> struct rlimit rlim;
> rlim.rlim_cur = 1;
> rlim.rlim_max = 1;
> if (setrlimit(RLIMIT_CPU,&rlim) < 0)
> {
> perror("setrlimit");
> exit(1);
> }
> printf("HEY\n");
> while (1)
> {
> }
> printf("BYE\n");
> return 0;
> }
>
> $ gcc test.c
> $ ./a.exe
> setrlimit: Invalid argument
>
>
> I have found that the only way to make the setrlimit call succeed is to
> use RLIM_INFINITY:
>
> rlim.rlim_cur = RLIM_INFINITY;
> rlim.rlim_max = RLIM_INFINITY;
>
> But then of course it does not achieve the desired result of timing out
> after 1 second.
>
> Any ideas?
Most of setrlimit is not supported. There's a bit of RLIMIT_CORE
and RLIMIT_NOFILE support but it's basically fake because Windows
doesn't (or didn't in some cases) have support for setting limits
for the own and child processes.
Corinna
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