Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 20:15:35 -0500 (CDT) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: bde@zeta.org.au Cc: fcurrent@jraynard.demon.co.uk, skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cputime limit exceeded Message-ID: <199806190115.UAA05110@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: <199806170649.QAA09080@godzilla.zeta.org.au> (message from Bruce Evans on Wed, 17 Jun 1998 16:49:02 %2B1000) References: <199806170649.QAA09080@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> No, they run as root which has unlimited cputime (that was the first thing >> I checked!). The reason why I posted was that I remembered some discussion > Root actually has a limit of only about 290 thousand years. It used to > be about 290 billion years, but conversion from seconds to microseconds > now reduces its range by a factor of 10^6. The only known time that root has exceeded this limit happened to be while typing in an motd asking users to please log out their idle terminals. Best, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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