Re: [PATCH] move RLIMIT_NPROC check from set_user() to do_execve_common()

[Willy Tarreau]

Hi Neil,

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 01:30:13PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
(...)
> But what do you think of this.  It sure that only the process which ignored
> the return value from setuid is inconvenienced.
(...)

I think this is a smart idea. But will the flag be inherited by children
over a fork() ? If not, we might as well block fork(), because we can
expect a lot of fork+exec situations which are as dangerous as the simple
execve().

Regards,
Willy

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