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
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
Hi!
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 oblivious to it, some are not and can cause issues that
are not s
