RE: are limits bogus?

From: David Schwartz (davids@webmaster.com)
Date: Mon Jan 17 2000 - 23:55:49 EST


> recently there was discussion on bugtraq about sshd not respecting limits.
>
> this surprised me greatly, since i had assumed i had this covered in my
> /etc/initscript.
>
> i was wrong.
>
> the question is: why is this done at the app level, rather than enforced
> by the kernel?

        Err, it is enforced by the kernel. 'man 2 setrlimit'.

        DS

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