In the following example, an application has set a privileged limit of 3000 LWPs that may not be exceeded. In addition, the application has set a basic limit of 2000 LWPs. When this limit is exceeded, a SIGXRES is sent to the application. Upon receiving a SIGXRES, the application might send notification to its child processes that might in turn reduce the number of LWPs the processes use or need.
/* Omit return value and error checking */ #include <rctl.h> rctlblk_t *rcb1, *rcb2; /* * Resource control blocks are opaque * and must be explicitly allocated. */ rcb1 = calloc(rctlblk_size()); rcb2 = calloc(rctlblk_size()); /* Install an RCPRIV_PRIVILEGED, v=3000: do not allow more than 3000 LWPs */ rctlblk_set_value(rcb1, 3000); rctlblk_set_privilege(rcb1, RCPRIV_PRIVILEGED); rctlblk_set_local_action(rcb1, RCTL_LOCAL_DENY); setrctl("task.max-lwps", NULL, rcb1, RCTL_INSERT); /* Install an RCPRIV_BASIC, v=2000 to send SIGXRES when LWPs exceeds 2000 */ rctlblk_set_value(rcb2, 2000); rctlblk_set_privilege(rcb2, RCPRIV_BASIC); rctlblk_set_local_action(rcb2, RCTL_LOCAL_SIGNAL, SIGXRES); setrctl("task.max-lwps", NULL, rcb2, RCTL_INSERT);