Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:43:46 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] RLIMIT_NPROC enforcement during execve() calls |
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On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 07:38:57PM +0200, Lorenzo Hern?ndez Garc?a-Hierro wrote: > Enforces the RLIMIT_NPROC limit by adding an additional check for > execve(), as > such limit is checked only during fork() calls.
What's the point? exec doesn't create new process and exec() shouldn't start to fail just because someone lowered the rlimit a short while ago.
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