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    [PATCH] RLIMIT_CPU: fix handling of a zero limit · e0661111
    Andrew Morton authored
    
    
    At present the kernel doesn't honour an attempt to set RLIMIT_CPU to zero
    seconds.  But the spec says it should, and that's what 2.4.x does.
    
    Fixing this for real would involve some complexity (such as adding a new
    it-has-been-set flag to the task_struct, and testing that everwhere, instead
    of overloading the value of it_prof_expires).
    
    Given that a 2.4 kernel won't actually send the signal until one second has
    expired anyway, let's just handle this case by treating the caller's
    zero-seconds as one second.
    
    Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
    Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
    Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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