Collective limits on set of processes (a.k.a. jobs)

by Gábor Kövesdán for The FreeBSD Project

The SGI Irix operating system introduces the concept of jobs, which are set of processes handled as a unit. The Irix API provides system calls to set collective resource limits on jobs, which are then enforced by jobs-aware schedulers. This application proposes the implementation of kernel-level and userland support with an Irix-compatible interface for better portability. The efficiency of the implementation is considered a crucial point of this project.