Re: [PATCH] no RLIMIT_NPROC for root, please

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Nov 28 2000 - 16:58:14 EST

> > 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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