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Author: Adam Borowski
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Linus can no longer trust "init"
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 03:39:33PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> What did Linux mean by "init"? A lot of people use the word "init"
> synonomously with sysvinit, in which case this would appear to be bad
> news for us. On the other hand, perhaps he use "init" to mean the init
> system, regardless of brand. I can't tell from context.


He meant an "init" that mucks with RLIMIT_STACK for a bad reason -- as it
affects all processes spawned by said init.

[/tmp/sysvinit-2.88dsf]$ grep -r RLIMIT_STACK *|wc -l
0

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