[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Re: [Pkg-sysvinit-commits] r940 - in sysvinit/trunk/debian: . initscripts initscripts/etc/init.d initscripts/lib/init initscripts/share

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>   * Make the tmpfs on /var/run/ and /var/lock/ optional, and provide
>     TMPRUN and TMPLOCK options in /etc/default/rcS to control this.
>     Remove code to convert to this feature when the package is
>     upgraded or installed.  It will take effect after a reboot if
>     /etc/default/rcS is modified.  Keep them disabled for now.

We still need to limit resource usage, you cannot have more than one tmpfs
in a system with the default size without a serious DoS risk.

I'd limit the lock one to 5MB, and the run one to 10MB by default, and allow
rcS variables to override this.

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  Henrique Holschuh