setrlimit not available on os x

[giampaolo]

From l...@hupfeldtit.dk on February 16, 2014 18:13:15

psutil.setrlimit is not available on os x, but resource.setrlimit is.
I'm guessing psutil proxies the similar methods on resource?

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/psutil/issues/detail?id=480

[giampaolo]

From g.rodola on February 16, 2014 09:41:25

stdlib resource.getrlimit() and resource.setrlimit() are implemented by using 
getrlimit() and setrlimit() POSIX syscalls which let you set/get resource 
limits *for the current process only*: http://linux.die.net/man/2/getrlimit 
psutil implementation uses prlimit() syscall, which lets you set resource 
limits for *any process PID* (not only os.getpid()).
prlimit() syscall is Linux-specific, so that is why psutil exposes it on Linux 
only as psutil.Process.rlimit().

Thanks for the suggestion though, it was very clever.
Please keep suggesting similar things! =)

Status: Invalid