<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">I suspect the reasoning is that if root wanted to harm your system he could do so anyway, in many many different ways. So there is not much point in making ULIMIT count for root processes.</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>Yes, I think this too, but is really strange that the limits.conf file has specific root configurations. If that limit is ignored by kernel, why it can be configured?</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2012/8/15 Patrick Asselman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iceblink@seti.nl" target="_blank">iceblink@seti.nl</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 2012-08-15 00:01, Bruno Galindro da Costa wrote:<br>
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Hi!<br>
<br>
The kernel process roots ulimit values? Im trying to prevent<div class="im"><br>
forkbomb with root account, but no success...<br>
<br>
<br></div>
Im doing something wrong?<br>
</blockquote>
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I suspect the reasoning is that if root wanted to harm your system he could do so anyway, in many many different ways. So there is not much point in making ULIMIT count for root processes.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Patrick Asselman<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Att.<br>Bruno Galindro da Costa<br><br>