Which package is responsible for setting rlimits?

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Mon Feb 1 14:27:21 GMT 2021


On Mon, 01 Feb 2021 at 13:58:57 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Rationale: on sysvinit or runit systems, pid 1 is very simple and is
> unlikely to need to elevate any limits, but sysadmins are expected
> to restart system services in an unpredictable execution environment
> (certainly true for systemd, I'm not so sure for runit).

Sorry, that should of course read: "certainly true for *sysvinit*,
I'm not so sure for runit".

    smcv



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