> Linux has had (for a while now) a "struct user" that is actually quickly
> accessible through a direct pointer off every process that is associated
> with that user, and we could (and _will_) start adding these kinds of
> limits. However, part of the problem is that because the limits haven't
> historically existed, there is also no accepted and nice way of setting
> the limits.
For that to work we need to seperate struct user from the uid a little, or
provide heirarchical pools (which seems overcomplex). Its common to want
to take a group of users (eg the chemists) and give them a shared limit
rather than per user limits
Alan
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