[7962] in bugtraq
Re: ANNOUNCE: secure identd v0.3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kragen)
Thu Sep 17 13:24:58 1998
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 08:40:08 -0400
Reply-To: Kragen <kragen@POBOX.COM>
From: Kragen <kragen@POBOX.COM>
X-To: Wietse Venema <wietse@PORCUPINE.ORG>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <19980917005728.EA54445AAA@spike.porcupine.org>
On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Wietse Venema wrote:
> For example, when all data objects have limited size, and when the
> number of objects instances is limited, so is the amount of memory
> required to hold those objects.
This is often not sufficient, though. The canonical example is Unix
limits -- it may be fine for a user to run 50 processes, and for a user
to run a 75MB Emacs process, but that doesn't imply they ought to be
able to run 50 75MB processes.
Kragen
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