On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Jan Rekorajski <baggins@sith.mimuw.edu.pl> writes:
>
> |> Why is RLIMIT_NPROC apllied to root(uid 0) processes? It's not kernel job to
> |> prevent admin from shooting him/her self in the foot.
> |>
> |> root should be able to do fork() regardless of any limits,
> |> and IMHO the following patch is the right thing.
>
> AFAICS, _all_ resource limits are equally applied to root processes. Why
> should NPROC be different?
Because you want to be able to `kill <pid>`?
And if you are over-limits you can't?
Jan
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