Bug#480020: openssh-server: adjusted OOM killer is inherited by all child processes

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

tags 480020 pending
thanks

On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 05:42:58PM +0200, Vaclav Ovsik wrote:
> there is IMO problem with adjusting OOM killer by startup script,
> because it is inherited by all child processes:
[...]
> I have prepared an attached patch, that implements adjusting directly in
> sshd and the adjusting is reverted after fork() to original value.

Thanks for this. I tidied the code up a little bit and have committed it
to my CVS tree. I also forwarded it upstream as:

  https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1470

Regards,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]