El lun, 18-04-2005 a las 18:43 +0100, Christoph Hellwig escribi�: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 07:38:57PM +0200, Lorenzo Hern?ndez Garc?a-Hierro > wrote: > > Enforces the RLIMIT_NPROC limit by adding an additional check for > > execve(), as > > such limit is checked only during fork() calls. > > What's the point? exec doesn't create new process and exec() shouldn't > start to fail just because someone lowered the rlimit a short while ago.
The limit is only checked when process is created on a fork() call, but during execution it's uid can change, thus, the limit for the new uid could be exceed. It comes from the Openwall kernel patch, as well implemented in grSecurity and vSecurity. Cheers, -- Lorenzo Hern�ndez Garc�a-Hierro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1024D/6F2B2DEC] & [2048g/9AE91A22][http://tuxedo-es.org]
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