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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2006-09-12 06:38:38 +0000 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2006-09-12 06:38:38 +0000 |
| commit | 5e8b726f68ce8f5cef42ba6102e56ec8fb9a894b (patch) | |
| tree | c56a431d569b0ab9c9901bfaa594c0f9a1dc2757 /man7/pthreads.7 | |
| parent | 7fc594a121246b9d19c8034513d90108150ce046 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-5e8b726f68ce8f5cef42ba6102e56ec8fb9a894b.tar.gz | |
Noted effect of RLIMIT_STACK resource limit for NPTL.
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diff --git a/man7/pthreads.7 b/man7/pthreads.7 index f2d2e72284..02ad57a508 100644 --- a/man7/pthreads.7 +++ b/man7/pthreads.7 @@ -273,6 +273,22 @@ However, a new thread's alternate signal stack settings are copied from the thread that created it, so that the threads initially share an alternate signal stack (fixed in kernel 2.6.16). +.PP +Note the following further points about the NPTL implementation: +.IP \- 3 +If the stack size soft resource limit (see the description of +.B RLIMIT_STACK +in +.BR setrlimit (2)) +is set to a value other than +.IR unlimited , +then this value defines the default stack size for new threads. +To be effective, this limit must be set before the program +is executed, perhaps using the +.I ulimit -s +shell built-in command +.RI ( "limit stacksize" +in the C shell). .SS "Determining the Threading Implementation" Since glibc 2.3.2, the .BR getconf (1) |