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Subject: Re: [PATCH] no RLIMIT_NPROC for root, please
To: baggins@sith.mimuw.edu.pl (Jan Rekorajski)
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:58:14 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: schwab@suse.de (Andreas Schwab), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <20001128222040.H2680@sith.mimuw.edu.pl> from "Jan Rekorajski" at Nov 28, 2000 10:20:40 PM
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> > 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?

Wrong. limit is a shell built in

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