Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 28 Nov 2000 22:11:07 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] no RLIMIT_NPROC for root, please | From | Andreas Schwab <> |
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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?
Andreas.
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