From: Claudio Castellini <drwho AT mrg DOT dist DOT unige DOT it>
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Subject: Re: setrlimit & setrusage
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 19:18:22 +0200
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Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> 
> Claudio Castellini (drwho AT mrg DOT dist DOT unige DOT it) wrote:
> : Hello everyone.
> :
> which DOZE doesn't provide. However note that nothing is implemented
> until somebody comes along with enough motivation that does the
> work. (You e. g.) So if somebody knows how to do it and will do it, go
> ahead!

This sound fine. Eli Zaretsky too tells me to do the thing myself, and I am
challenged by this task. The point is, I don't have enough low-level knowledge
about DOS to try to implement such OS-related functions.

Any ideas about books/infosources to start from?


> : (b) if not, d'ya know any other way to stop a program still running after n
> :     seconds without using setrlimit() ?
> 
> It not exactly setrlimit() but what about alarm()?

Great idea! I have come through the CPU time limit problem, thanks to it.
However, there's still no way to put limits on memory, file numbers and other
stuff setrlimit can do.


> : (c) in the 2.02 "what's new" section, it is stated that getrusage and setrusage
> :     have been implemented. What is "setrusage" (couldn't find it in any gcc
> :     documentation)?
> 
> Well it's from libc (I think) so look in the libc documentation, not
> the gcc one. Failing finding anything there, look in the libc
> sources.

Could not find any references to it; I'll assume it's a bug of the manual, as
someone else has suggested.

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