are limits bogus?

From: kutek@cybercomm.net
Date: Mon Jan 17 2000 - 18:10:29 EST


recently there was discussion on bugtraq about sshd not respecting limits.

this surprised me greatly, since i had assumed i had this covered in my
/etc/initscript.

i was wrong.

the question is: why is this done at the app level, rather than enforced
by the kernel?

fractoid

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