Re: [PATCH] RLIMIT_NPROC enforcement during execve() calls

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 07:38:57PM +0200, Lorenzo Hern?ndez Garc?a-Hierro wrote:
> Enforces the RLIMIT_NPROC limit by adding an additional check for
> execve(), as
> such limit is checked only during fork() calls.

What's the point? exec doesn't create new process and exec() shouldn't
start to fail just because someone lowered the rlimit a short while ago.

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