On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Matt McCutchen <matt(a)mattmccutchen.net> wrote:
I tried to prevent buggy programs from bringing my system to a halt
by
setting an RLIMIT_DATA with "ulimit -d", but I discovered that the limit
has no effect due to a glibc behavior. I reported this as a bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=569714
I am convinced that this is an infelicitous behavior that deserves at
least a WONTFIX, but the assignee seems equally convinced that it is
NOTABUG, and I do not understand the terse justification given. I don't
want to go on reopen warring forever. Could I please have an outside
opinion?
This mailing list does not get much attention from developers. You
really need to put this subject on the developer's list.
Matt