[eeps] [erlang-questions] New EEP: setrlimit(2) analogue for Erlang

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> Hmm .. inheritance .. neat, but I don't know.

It's not clear how much sense inheritance makes.

There have been concurrent systems in which a process is
born with some share of system resources and can portion
its share out amongst its children, so that a bound on
memory or CPU time or whatever really _is_ a bound on the
total resource consumption on and on behalf of that activity.
Then you run into issues like having a dead child return
unused resources to its parent's account.  This protects
against malice.

If inheritance is just inheritance, then a limited process
can consume unbounded amounts of memory by creating lots of
children.  This protects against accident, sort of, but has
no protection against malice.