[PATCH 1/2] Set default stack size from program environment

Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
Tue Mar 5 14:32:00 GMT 2013


Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> writes:

> [...]  Conversely, anything only changeable by privileged
> administrator action rather than inherited from something casually
> fungible like the environment is better for the issue of security
> hardening.

AIUI, this option is about courteously limiting memory consumption,
not about security hardening (which hard ulimits could impose).

- FChE



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