Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:45:41 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> To: "Kip Macy" <kip@lyris.com>, "Gregory Sutter" <gsutter@pobox.com> Cc: <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: kern.maxfiles and kern.maxfilesperproc Message-ID: <000001bf048b$6a01eea0$021d85d1@youwant.to> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.05.9909211616350.16568-100000@luna>
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> Thanks. Although having maxfiles == maxfilesperproc might make sense for > special cases e.g. a machine completely dedicated to one process -- It is > dangerous at best for the general case. Any malicious program can make a > machine running FreeBSD non-functional. The default should be set with the > average user in mind, namely protecting him from himself. > > > -Kip These settings have nothing to do with protecting anything from anything else. That's not what they're for. So your argument is interesting but irrelevant. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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