On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 10:31:30PM -0700, Chris G. Demetriou wrote:
> This, doesn't seem to be a reasonable use of the rlimit syscalls.
> 
> how is this close to process limits?  Yes, they control e.g. core dump
> size, but that's about it.

And also inheritance.

> 
> There are other uses for a more general mechanism to set inherited
> process attributes.  (in particular, i'm thinking of alignment
> handling for ports that care about alignment.)
> 

Then a new syscall needs to be defined. Does some other OS already have
something like this ?

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