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SubjectRe: Limits broken in 2.4.x kernel.
FromTrond Myklebust <>
Date18 Dec 2001 00:11:07 +0100
>>>>> " " == war  <war@starband.net> writes:

     > Problem: Per-user process limits to not work correctly with a
     > 2.4.x kernel.
     > Say I want to limit a user to [5] processes.
     > Example: Edit [/etc/security/limits.conf]
     >               user hard nproc 5 -or- @group hard nproc 5
     > The result: The user cannot login.
     > How to fix?
One thing I noticed when doing the BSD cred patch for 2.5.x is that
somebody broke the process accounting in 2.[45].x at least for the
case of reparent_to_init():
If you just charge current->user without moving over the process from
the old uid to the new uid (such as is done in kernel/sys.c with the
set_user() routine) then you risk seriously corrupting the counters.

I'm not sure really what the point was of setting the user in
reparent_to_init() in the first place, since it doesn't setreuid().

Cheers,
  Trond
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