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Subject: Re: setrlimit always fails
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On 2021-02-12 02:12, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> On Feb 12 00:26, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> On 2021-02-11 19:06, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
>>> On 2/11/2021 10:23 AM, Patrick Chkoreff wrote:
>>>> I'm trying to use setrlimit to impose limits on various resources such
>>>> as CPU time and memory.  The call to setrlimit always fails.  I've
>>>> distilled this into the following example test.c:
>>> [...]
>>>>       if (setrlimit(RLIMIT_CPU,&rlim) < 0)
>>> [...]
>>>> setrlimit: Invalid argument
>>>
>>> Cygwin's setrlimit only supports a few resources, as you can see in the source:
>>>
>>> https://cygwin.com/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=blob;f=winsup/cygwin/resource.cc;h=97777e9d223466b7635b990d6c9e0bfb9e2e9a46;hb=HEAD#l201
>>
>> In that case could I suggest:
>>
>> 	/usr/share/doc/cygwin-doc/html/cygwin-api/compatibility.html#std-susv4
>> 	https://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/compatibility.html#std-susv4
>>
>> in https://cygwin.com/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=blob;f=winsup/doc/posix.xml
>>
>> get/setrlimit entries should be annotated with:
> 
> https://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PGA

I'll see what I can do. Does anyone know if <ulink> is supported within 
<screen>? I seem to remember struggles updating proc(5) in specialnames.xml.

It appears that code using other than the common POSIX resources need existence 
checks.
I am unsure if it is worth adding definitions for any others.
It may be possible to implement RSS, NPROC, LOCKS, NICE, but
https://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHDTI

Comparing Cygwin and Linux ([uapi/]asm-generic/}:

#define RLIMIT_CPU		0	/* CPU time in seconds */
#define RLIMIT_FSIZE		1	/* Maximum filesize */
#define RLIMIT_DATA		2	/* max data size */
#define RLIMIT_STACK		3	/* max stack size */
#define RLIMIT_CORE		4	/* max core file size */
#ifdef LINUX
#define RLIMIT_RSS		5	/* max resident set size */
#define RLIMIT_NPROC		6	/* max number of processes */
#define RLIMIT_NOFILE		7	/* max number of open files */
#define RLIMIT_AS		9	/* address space limit */
#else
#define RLIMIT_NOFILE		5	/* max number of open files */
#define RLIMIT_OFILE		RLIMIT_NOFILE	/* BSD name */
#define RLIMIT_AS		6	/* address space limit */
#endif
#ifdef LINUX
#define RLIMIT_LOCKS		10	/* maximum file locks held */
#define RLIMIT_SIGPENDING	11	/* max number of pending signals */
#define RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE		12	/* maximum bytes in POSIX mqueues */
#define RLIMIT_NICE		13	/* max nice prio allowed to raise to */
#define RLIMIT_RTPRIO		14	/* maximum realtime priority */
#define RLIMIT_RTTIME		15	/* timeout for RT tasks in us */
#define RLIM_NLIMITS		16
#else
#define RLIMIT_NLIMITS		7	/* upper bound of RLIMIT_* defines */
#endif

Linux man says:

"RLIMIT_MEMLOCK and RLIMIT_NPROC derive from BSD and are not specified in 
POSIX.1; they are present on the BSDs and Linux, but on few other implementations.
RLIMIT_RSS derives from BSD and is not specified in POSIX.1; it is nevertheless 
present on most implementations.
RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE, RLIMIT_NICE, RLIMIT_RTPRIO,  RLIMIT_RTTIME, and 
RLIMIT_SIGPENDING are Linux-specific."

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