On Thu, 12 May 2016 12:07:29 +0200 Jeroen Ooms <jeroen.o...@stat.ucla.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:51 AM, Martin Maechler > <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote: > > My conclusion was I could not use the RAppArmor package. > > > > (But that's wrong: For the rlimit*() functions below, one do > > *NOT* need an AppArmor-enabled version of Linux !) > > Yes, it is a relatively recent (unadvertised) feature that the package > now builds on linux systems without libapparmor. I agree this names > the package name confusing. I'll make at least that warning more > informative. > > Some background: When I started the package (5 years ago) I expected > that soon all linux distributions would have the apparmor module which > has been in the kernel since 2.6.36. However Redhat is explicitly > disabling it because they are pushing a competing MAC system (SELinux) > which they develop together with the NSA, and they really want you to > use this instead (and only this!). > > > I gather that all of these are *not* Apparmor related... so > > could/should maybe rather migrate into a lightweight package not > > mentioning AppArmor ? > > I agree, it has been on the to do list for a while; Kirill and me were > talking yesterday about what would be the best route to take: > > - A small package with only the rlimit bindings > - or: A 'linux' package with bindings to anything in the kernel, > including rlimit, but possibly other system tools. > - or: A package targeting POSIX/unix with standard functionality that > is also available on OSX/BSD. > > >From my experience, windows is pretty useless for this kind of > >stuff. Maybe not so useless after reading [1] about computationally querying the OSes on the available memory and [2] about pushing the OSes' limits. The latter page is part of a series where each topic is valuable on its own. [1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778.aspx [2] https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/markrussinovich/2008/07/21/pushing-the-limits-of-windows-physical-memory/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
