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has caused the Debian Bug report #403716,
regarding pam: RLIMIT_NICE calculation off by one?
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Package: pam
Version: 0.79-4
Severity: normal
While merging pam 0.79-4 into Ubuntu, I noticed that the new version of
pam_limits calculates the RLIMIT_NICE value passed to setrlimit() using
"19 - int_value". However, setpriority(2) says that unice = 20 - knice,
implying of course that knice = 20 - unice; the current pam_limits
behaviour will map the range [-20,19] onto [39,0] rather than [40,1] as
indicated by setpriority(2). Isn't this off by one?
Thanks,
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Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Version: 0.99.7.1-2
This has been fixed upstream, and is no longer a problem in Debian.
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Kees Cook @outflux.net
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