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Re: Resource limit question



On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 07:35:47PM -0500, Martin Weinberg wrote:
> Thanks very much for the info!  Good to know.  I've been assuming that
> this has been working for years.  I do have a vague recollection that
> "memoryuse" has worked in the past under Linux, no?

i don't know

> Do you, by any chance, have a pointer to the kernel
> documenation/source tree on this?

linux-kernel mailing list archives.  this has been discussed a few times
there.  usually when someone reinvents an age old DoS like su `cat /dev/urandom`

the answer is always `well of course, set resource limits'  `but
resource limits on linux are broken'

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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