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+/* $Id: setrlimit.c,v 1.1 2007-02-27 14:52:55 mike Exp $ */
+
+/*
+ * A simple wrapper program for the setrlimit(2) system call, which
+ * can be used to run a subprocess under a different regime -- much
+ * like "nice", "time", etc. This is needed for IRSpy, since when it
+ * runs against many servers simultaneously, it runs out of file
+ * descriptors -- a condition, by the way, which Perl sometimes
+ * reports very misleadingly (e.g. "Can't locate Scalar/Util.pm in
+ * @INC" when the open() failure was due to EMFILE rather than
+ * ENOENT).
+ *
+ * Since the file-descriptor limit can only be raised (from the
+ * default of 1024 in Ubuntu) by root, this program often needs to run
+ * as root -- hence the option for resetting the UID after performing
+ * the limit-change.
+ */
+
+#include <getopt.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <sys/time.h>
+#include <sys/resource.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <pwd.h>
+
+int main(int argc, char **argv) {
+ int n = 0;
+ char *user = 0;
+ int c;
+
+ while ((c = getopt(argc, argv, "n:u:")) != -1) {
+ switch (c) {
+ case 'n': n = atoi(optarg); break;
+ case 'u': user = optarg; break;
+ default:
+ USAGE:
+ fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s [options] <command>\n\
+ -n <number> Set maximum open files to <number>\n\
+ -u <user> Run subcommand as <user>\n",
+ argv[0]);
+ exit(1);
+ }
+ }
+
+ if (optind == argc)
+ goto USAGE;
+
+ if (n != 0) {
+ struct rlimit old, new;
+ getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &old);
+ new = old;
+ new.rlim_cur = n;
+ if (n > new.rlim_max)
+ new.rlim_max = n;
+#if 0
+ if (new.rlim_cur != old.rlim_cur)
+ printf("%s: changing soft NOFILE from %ld to %ld\n",
+ argv[0], (long) old.rlim_cur, (long) new.rlim_cur);
+ if (new.rlim_max != old.rlim_max)
+ printf("%s: changing soft NOFILE from %ld to %ld\n",
+ argv[0], (long) old.rlim_max, (long) new.rlim_max);
+#endif
+ if (setrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &new) < 0) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "%s: setrlimit(n=%d): %s\n",
+ argv[0], n, strerror(errno));
+ exit(2);
+ }
+ }
+
+ if (user != 0) {
+ struct passwd *pwd;
+ if ((pwd = getpwnam(user)) == 0) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "%s: user '%s' not known\n", argv[0], user);
+ exit(3);
+ }
+
+ if (setuid(pwd->pw_uid) < 0) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "%s: setuid('%s'=%ld): %s\n",
+ argv[0], user, (long) pwd->pw_uid, strerror(errno));
+ exit(4);
+ }
+ }
+
+#if 0
+ printf("%s: n=%d, user='%s', optind=%d, new argc=%d, new argv[0]='%s'\n",
+ argv[0], n, user, optind, argc-optind, argv[optind]);
+#endif
+ execvp(argv[optind], argv+optind);
+ fprintf(stderr, "%s: execvp('%s'): %s\n",
+ argv[0], argv[optind], strerror(errno));
+ exit(5);
+}