limit nofile has no effect?

[Scott James Remnant]

For the same reason that cron and atd currently are

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Steve Langasek
<steve.langasek at ubuntu.com>wrote:

> Hi Scott,
>
> On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 11:13:44AM -0700, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Steve Langasek
> > <steve.langasek at ubuntu.com>wrote:
>
> > > James, Scott, has any thought been given to including uid/gid or
> user/group
> > > as verbs in upstart jobs?  Seems to me this would be perfectly
> consistent
> > > with the existing umask, nice, oom, chroot, and limit verbs.
>
> > My stated opinion is that a "user" verb in upstart jobs should begin a
> PAM
> > session - which seems to be not what you want ;-)
>
> Why should upstart ever be involved with starting PAM sessions?  The very
> idea makes me uncomfortable from a PAM perspective; it may just be my lack
> of imagination, but I can't imagine a reason for an upstart job to
> correspond to a PAM service.  OTOH, my imagination is working just fine in
> coming up with ways that an init system playing with pam can go horribly
> wrong. ;)
>
> (Example: libpam occasionally adds new symbols that modules then depend on.
> Upgrading libpam therefore requires restarting any processes that have the
> library loaded persistently.  upstart doesn't currently save state on
> restart...)
>
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