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From: Jan Rekorajski <baggins@sith.mimuw.edu.pl>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] no RLIMIT_NPROC for root, please
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 22:20:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001128222040.H2680@sith.mimuw.edu.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001128214309.F2680@sith.mimuw.edu.pl> <200011282111.eASLB6k05926@hawking.suse.de>
In-Reply-To: <200011282111.eASLB6k05926@hawking.suse.de>; from schwab@suse.de on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:11:07PM +0100

On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Jan Rekorajski <baggins@sith.mimuw.edu.pl> writes:
> 
> |> Why is RLIMIT_NPROC apllied to root(uid 0) processes? It's not kernel job to
> |> prevent admin from shooting him/her self in the foot.
> |> 
> |> root should be able to do fork() regardless of any limits,
> |> and IMHO the following patch is the right thing.
> 
> AFAICS, _all_ resource limits are equally applied to root processes.  Why
> should NPROC be different?

Because you want to be able to `kill <pid>`?
And if you are over-limits you can't?

Jan
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-28 21:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-28 20:43 Jan Rekorajski
2000-11-28 20:52 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-28 20:58   ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-28 21:11   ` Jan Rekorajski
2000-11-30  0:00     ` Pavel Machek
2000-11-30 21:24       ` Jan Rekorajski
2000-11-30 21:57       ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-28 21:08 ` Andreas Dilger
2000-11-28 21:11 ` Andreas Schwab
2000-11-28 21:20   ` Jan Rekorajski [this message]
2000-11-28 21:58     ` Alan Cox
2000-11-28 22:13       ` Frank v Waveren
2000-11-28 23:23         ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2000-11-28 21:54 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-29  0:34   ` Jan Rekorajski

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