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Date:      Mon, 9 Apr 2018 09:55:33 -0500
From:      Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Niclas Zeising <zeising+freebsd@daemonic.se>, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org,  svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>,  svn-src-stable-11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r331880 - stable/11/etc
Message-ID:  <CACNAnaHpOTZMWRFjmbv5J8xu3tA2tLvOwZpT6_vyjhu6442TVQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201804091446.w39EkKdr019017@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <9cfe34fc-196a-df96-7eaf-036cc4c17bdd@daemonic.se> <201804091446.w39EkKdr019017@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>

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On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 9:46 AM, Rodney W. Grimes
<freebsd@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
>> On 04/02/18 17:39, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>> >> Author: kevans
>> >> Date: Mon Apr  2 15:28:48 2018
>> >> New Revision: 331880
>> >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/331880
>> >>
>> >> Log:
>> >>    MFC r328331: Support configuring arbitrary limits(1) for any rc.conf daemon
>> >>
>> >>    Usage is ${name}_limits, and the argument is any flags accepted by
>> >>    limits(1), such as `-n 100' (e.g. only allow 100 open files).
>> >>
>> >> Modified:
>> >>    stable/11/etc/rc.subr
>> >> Directory Properties:
>> >>    stable/11/   (props changed)
>> >>
>> >> Modified: stable/11/etc/rc.subr
>> >> ==============================================================================
>> >> --- stable/11/etc/rc.subr  Mon Apr  2 15:07:41 2018        (r331879)
>> >> +++ stable/11/etc/rc.subr  Mon Apr  2 15:28:48 2018        (r331880)
>> >> @@ -773,6 +773,8 @@ check_startmsgs()
>> >>   #
>> >>   #        ${name}_login_class n   Login class to use, else "daemon".
>> >>   #
>> >> +# ${name}_limits  n       limits(1) to apply to ${command}.
>> >> +#
>> >
>> > Caution, limits(1) is in /usr/bin, this code can fail if used before
>> > /usr is mounted.  (Ie, our rc.initdiskless) is probably broken by
>> > this change if a call is made to limits.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Sorry for jumping on this so late.  This is also an issue in CURRENT,
>> and has been since at least 2016.
>
> I was aware that it was an issue and why I made a comment about it
> being MFC'ed.  Though I had forgot a bug report existed.

I'm kind of surprised we haven't had more complaints about this- the
original commit for this stuff landed before stable/11 was even
branched, so it's been broken for all of 11.x's lifetime.

>> See https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=206291
>
> This bug is rat holed as it has no FreeBSD-foo@ in the cc list.
>
>
> --
> Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org
>



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