Hi,

On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 12:20:45PM -0400, Selva Nair wrote:
> We should have probably made this not a FATAL error.

The rules could be twisted a bit ("if uid == 0 then not fatal"), but
generally speaking, we setrlimit() to avoid running into memory issues
later on - and if that fails, someone else is imposing restrictions
on us.  So better fail right away than in malloc() later on.

gert

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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             g...@greenie.muc.de

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