makeparallel: reset make's unlimited stack

make 3.81 sets its own stack size to be unlimited, but accidentally
leaves it unlimited for all child processes.  If it is unlimited, reset
it back to a reasonable default (8MB).

See http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?22010

Change-Id: Ieb0289823f12a421b59d8ab5292d3df3c6dfc27e

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/makeparallel/makeparallel.cpp b/tools/makeparallel/makeparallel.cpp
index 3c39846ecd..c70fa9a782 100644
--- a/tools/makeparallel/makeparallel.cpp
+++ b/tools/makeparallel/makeparallel.cpp
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
+#include <sys/resource.h>
 #include <sys/time.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <sys/wait.h>
@@ -343,6 +344,15 @@ int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
     // child
     unsetenv("MAKEFLAGS");
     unsetenv("MAKELEVEL");
+
+    // make 3.81 sets the stack ulimit to unlimited, which may cause problems
+    // for child processes
+    struct rlimit rlim{};
+    if (getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, &rlim) == 0 && rlim.rlim_cur == RLIM_INFINITY) {
+      rlim.rlim_cur = 8*1024*1024;
+      setrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, &rlim);
+    }
+
     int ret = execvp(path, args.data());
     if (ret < 0) {
       error(errno, errno, "exec %s failed", path);