* Ingo Molnar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > But if someone reviewed all of the rlimit use in the kernel, we could > make it a policy that rlimits might change. Any unsafe use could be made > safe pretty easily. Since they are ulongs they are updated atomically > even without any locking - but e.g. the default and the hard limit might > change separately. (from the viewpoint of rlimit-using kernel code.)
I can wade through them later in the week. > obviously a remote rlimit must listen to same kind of security > permissions as e.g. ptrace or signal sending. Yeah. thanks, -chris -- Linux Security Modules http://lsm.immunix.org http://lsm.bkbits.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
