Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | Date | Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:43:09 +0100 | From | Jan Rekorajski <> | Subject | [PATCH] no RLIMIT_NPROC for root, please |
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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.
--- linux/kernel/fork.c~ Tue Sep 5 23:48:59 2000 +++ linux/kernel/fork.c Sun Nov 26 20:22:20 2000 @@ -560,7 +560,8 @@ *p = *current; retval = -EAGAIN; - if (atomic_read(&p->user->processes) >= p->rlim[RLIMIT_NPROC].rlim_cur) + if (p->user->uid && + (atomic_read(&p->user->processes) >= p->rlim[RLIMIT_NPROC].rlim_cur)) goto bad_fork_free; atomic_inc(&p->user->__count); atomic_inc(&p->user->processes); Jan -- Jan Rękorajski | ALL SUSPECTS ARE GUILTY. PERIOD! baggins<at>mimuw.edu.pl | OTHERWISE THEY WOULDN'T BE SUSPECTS, WOULD THEY? BOFH, type MANIAC | -- TROOPS by Kevin Rubio - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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