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Date:      Mon, 11 Jan 1999 01:33:00 -0600 (CST)
From:      Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com>
To:        abial@nask.pl (Andrzej Bialecki)
Cc:        robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org, des@flood.ping.uio.no, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: proposed mod to ps(1)
Message-ID:  <199901110733.BAA15813@home.dragondata.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9901110835120.6084-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> from Andrzej Bialecki at "Jan 11, 1999  8:36:55 am"

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> On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> > On 7 Jan 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > 
> > > Wouldn't it make sense to add an option to ps(1) to display the login
> > > class of each process?
> > 
> > I was under the impression that 'login class' was really a property of the
> > class database in userland, and that the kernel didn't know what class you
> > were in, just the current process properties (resource limits, etc). 
> > Programs such as 'login' set their resource limitations based on these
> > class entries.  As such, ps would not know the 'class' on a per-process
> 
> while on the subject... Does any of you know how login time limits are
> enforced? I couldn't find any place where it is done, and the real-life
> evidence seems to support my view that currently they are being just
> ignored...
> 

AFAIK, the only way to enforce login time limits is through idled, which is
in ports.

Kevin

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