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To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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Subject: Re: Kernel Panic
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From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Date: 24 Jun 2001 18:25:05 +0200
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"Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> writes:
> That's a case I hadn't thought of - however, "local" search paths should
> generally be at the END of the user's path, not the beginning, in which case
> the system binary gets called first.

No!  Local paths should be at the beginning, so local binaries
(wrappers etc.) can ovverride system binaries.

> Both cases are bad practice, and shouldn't be present on a normal system.

Bollocks.

> I think in that situation you would have to have a swap partition that's
> smaller than the maximum amount of ram that a normal user is permitted to
> allocate - in that case the limits are set too high.

That, or the limits simply don't account for all the resources a user
can consume, as is the case with mmap().

DES
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