Loic: You don't want to do it on 32 bit platforms, but for 64 bit hosts I think it should be OK.
The only thing that I can think of that is likely to break is if the user has a "ulimit -v" setting which we would now be breaching.
Loic: You don't want to do it on 32 bit platforms, but for 64 bit hosts I think it should be OK.
The only thing that I can think of that is likely to break is if the user has a "ulimit -v" setting which we would now be breaching.