Messages in this thread |  | | From | (joost witteveen) | Subject | Re: 2.0, loggings, cpu quotas, 2.1 issues, etc. | Date | Wed, 12 Jun 1996 21:29:09 +0200 (MET DST) |
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> > > Re: The CPU quotas... > > Max CPU time per process is already supported and has been for a long time. > See man setrlimit, and note RLIMIT_CPU. This support is in the kernel, > software support is also needed, and is forthcoming as a config file with > the Shadow Password Suite.
But as far as I know the CPU time used isn't inherited by the children, i.e. a malicious user can still fork-bomb, and get as much CPU time as he likes.
(I'm saying this based on test with bash's ulimit -t, I'm not sure that's what you were referring to, though).
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