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Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 22:20:40 +0100
From: Jan Rekorajski <baggins@sith.mimuw.edu.pl>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] no RLIMIT_NPROC for root, please
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On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> 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?

Because you want to be able to `kill <pid>`?
And if you are over-limits you can't?

Jan
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