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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2014-05-27 06:51:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2014-05-28 17:10:56 +0200 |
| commit | adab861a920d0307905801e172f93630c7ccc4ee (patch) | |
| tree | b9078ddcefb53ffae153d3deb186af4d53f088c7 | |
| parent | 83490231455f8d1a94b42094a33f6354817ca597 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-adab861a920d0307905801e172f93630c7ccc4ee.tar.gz | |
execve.2: RLIMIT_NPROC is checked only if preceded by set*uid()
Reported-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/execve.2 | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man2/execve.2 b/man2/execve.2 index 945ee2565a..8eeabe6c93 100644 --- a/man2/execve.2 +++ b/man2/execve.2 @@ -603,7 +603,10 @@ but the kernel sets an internal flag, named to note that the .BR RLIMIT_NPROC resource limit has been exceeded. -If the resource limit is still exceeded at the time of a subsequent +If the +.BR PF_NPROC_EXCEEDED +flag is set and the resource limit is still +exceeded at the time of a subsequent .BR execve () call, that call fails with the error .BR EAGAIN . |