From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 21 16:49:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from luna.lyris.net (luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EFF514A04 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:49:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kip@lyris.com) Received: from luna.shelby.com by luna.lyris.net (8.9.1b+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id QAA18156; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:49:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from (luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6]) by luna.shelby.com with SMTP (MailShield v1.50); Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:49:10 -0700 Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:49:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Kip Macy X-Sender: kip@luna To: David Schwartz Cc: Gregory Sutter , stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: kern.maxfiles and kern.maxfilesperproc In-Reply-To: <000001bf048b$6a01eea0$021d85d1@youwant.to> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SMTP-HELO: luna X-SMTP-MAIL-FROM: kip@lyris.com X-SMTP-RCPT-TO: davids@webmaster.com,gsutter@pobox.com,stable@freebsd.org X-SMTP-PEER-INFO: luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6] Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Obviously not from the default settings. Typically limits are in place to protect something from something. This, however, may be an exception. -Kip On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, David Schwartz wrote: > > Thanks. Although having maxfiles == maxfilesperproc might make sense for > > special cases e.g. a machine completely dedicated to one process -- It is > > dangerous at best for the general case. Any malicious program can make a > > machine running FreeBSD non-functional. The default should be set with the > > average user in mind, namely protecting him from himself. > > > > > > -Kip > > These settings have nothing to do with protecting anything from anything > else. That's not what they're for. So your argument is interesting but > irrelevant. > > DS > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message