Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: 2.4.8 Resource leaks + limits | | Date | Sat, 18 Aug 2001 23:34:31 +0100 (BST) | | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > The fix is to disable the check for RLIMIT_NPROC in > > > kernel/fork.c when the user is root. I made this patch > > > Everybody told him, including Alan, go away and fix PAM. He went away > > and fixed PAM in 2 days. Up to day none of the main distributions ship > > the correct[ly configured] PAM, so the problem still bites. Feel free > > to rebut me. > > Wouldn't that involve fixing login, sshd, and all other > programs using pam to set the limits before fork()ing ? > > I know the pam library is responsible for setting the > user limits, but it's the program linked to libpam which > is responsible for the order in which the other things > are done, right ? > > (then again, I don't know enough about the userspace side > of things here, I'd be happy if somebody could enlighten > me) > > cheers, > > Rik > -- > IA64: a worthy successor to i860. > > http://www.surriel.com/http://distro.conectiva.com/ > > Send all your spam to aardvark@nl.linux.org (spam digging piggy) > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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