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Date:      Mon, 2 Apr 2018 11:08:10 -0500
From:      Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>,  svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org,  svn-src-stable-11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r331880 - stable/11/etc
Message-ID:  <CACNAnaGdOhBP3hjTJoRaQKgLUmzG-JRfXVYXdCBSQJScyMMS7Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201804021539.w32FdaID083096@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <201804021528.w32FSmd7023856@repo.freebsd.org> <201804021539.w32FdaID083096@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>

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On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 10:39 AM, Rodney W. Grimes
<freebsd@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> 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.
>

I believe this is a non-issue in this case-- this didn't add any
limits(1) invocations, it just allowed flags to be passed to the
limits(1) invocation that was already being made.


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