Re: 32-bit pid_t / security

From: Michael van den broek (mbroek@trlisp.nl)
Date: Wed Oct 04 2000 - 12:05:25 EST


On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Michael van den broek wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Brett Frankenberger wrote:
> > >
> > > > >
> > > > > S/390 folks run 70,000 sessions active within the same 60 second period off
> > > > > one big box. Not on Linux (yet ;)) but its worth bearing in mind.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Linux 2.2.17 only allows 255 processes at any one time. Is this a
> > > 'feature'. If so, there is no security to be gained by having 32-bit
> > > pids wrap at 32-bits. Note they already are 32 bits.
> > >
> >
> > Hya,
> >
> > Did you raise the max process ulimit ?,
> >
> > the standard limit is: 256 processes
> >
> > greets,
> >
> > Michael
> >
> To the best of my knowledge, I don't have ulimits turned on!
> Script started on Wed Oct 4 13:01:30 2000
> $ ulimit
> unlimited
> $ exit
> Script done on Wed Oct 4 13:01:36 2000

Use 'ulimit -a' to see your limits

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