On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 12:11 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > Didn't you ever look up what a ulimit is?
ofcourse i did. I just think that ulimit (or other userspace tools) should be used to *raise* the limit if you need more. Not the reverse. > If you consider your distro's default ulimits unreasonable, file a bug > report with them. But no one is going to make Linux "restrictive by > default" to make life easier for people who don't bother to RTFM. I already suggested ulimit solutions for my distro. They think that if this is needed the kernel dev's would do something (ie its a kernel problem) while the kernel dev's says this is a userspace prob. I wouldn't bother if this was a problem for one or two distros only. Now, almost all distros seems to be vulnerable by default. I wouldn't bother if other *nixes would set this limit in userspace. (the BSD's set the limit lower in kernel and let users who need more raise with userland tools) I wouldn't bother if this wouldn't give Linux a bad reputation. I'm Sorry if I made some people upset. -- Natanael Copa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
