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Date:      Wed, 31 May 2000 02:07:26 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD-SECURITY <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Local FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DoS Vulnerability (fwd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005310204330.6246-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>
In-Reply-To: <200005301726.NAA25833@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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On Tue, 30 May 2000, Garrett Wollman wrote:
[...]
: ITYM ``see `man setrlimit' with special attention to RLIMIT_SBSIZE''.
: `man limit' doesn't provide any useful information at all.

Yes, I see what you mean and understand RLIMIT_SBSIZE, but just how is
that set on a machine wide-all-users scale? From what I can tell from
login.conf(5) there's no resource for it.

RESOURCE LIMITS
     Name            Type      Notes     Description
     cputime         time                CPU usage limit.
     filesize        size                Maximum file size limit.
     datasize        size                Maximum data size limit.
     stacksize       size                Maximum stack size limit.
     coredumpsize    size                Maximum coredump size limit.
     memoryuse       size                Maximum of core memory use size
                                         limit.
     memorylocked    size                Maximum locked in core memory size
                                         limit.
     maxproc         number              Maximum number of processes.
     openfiles       number              Maximum number of open files per
                                         process.
...

Is the manual page out of date and it's there, or is it not?

: -GAWollman

Regards,
Matt Heckaman
matt@arpa.mail.net
http://www.lucida.qc.ca

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