Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262532AbUDLFtO (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Apr 2004 01:49:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262606AbUDLFtO (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Apr 2004 01:49:14 -0400 Received: from cpe-24-221-190-179.ca.sprintbbd.net ([24.221.190.179]:51114 "EHLO myware.akkadia.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262532AbUDLFtN (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Apr 2004 01:49:13 -0400 Message-ID: <407A2DAC.3080802@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 22:48:28 -0700 From: Ulrich Drepper Organization: Red Hat, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040409 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Manfred Spraul , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Subject: message queue limits X-Enigmail-Version: 0.83.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 655 Lines: 15 Something has to change in the way message queues are created. Currently it is possible for an unprivileged user to exhaust all mq slots so that only root can create a few more. Any other unprivileged user has no change to create anything. I think it is necessary to create a per-user limit instead of a system-wide limit. -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/