[17072] in Athena Bugs
Re: "limit coredumpsize 0" in the default dotfiles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Wed Aug 18 20:02:13 1999
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 20:02:06 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199908190002.UAA118955@steve-dallas.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[17071] in Athena Bugs"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
| I investigated with a test account, and found that under irix, the
| limits do not get inherited from shell to shell, but are set to some
| default with each shell. Since the setting of limit in
| /usr/athena/lib/init/cshrc is wrapped in a conditional so that it only
| gets executed in the first shell, it has no effect on subsequent
| shells.
|
| jhawk notes that this is controlled in /var/sysgen/mtune/kernel
To be a bit more clear, the limit gets reset across a setuid() to a
different uid, and since xterm is setuid-root, the limits get reset
whenever xterm is run.
-jhawk
