[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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