Re: ulimit -d/-m do not actually work

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

"Jonathan A. Kollasch" <jakllsch%kollasch.net@localhost> writes:

> This is normal with modern anonymous memory allocations for malloc.

It seems like a clear bug; the point of limits is to constrain a
program, and the program is in effect unconstrained.

POSIX says that if the limit is exceed, malloc shall fail:

  https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/functions/setrlimit.html

I can see the point that malloc does not use the 'data segment'.