Re: [gentoo-hardened] what RLIMIT_STACK mean?

[Alex Efros]

Hi!

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 05:46:28PM +0200, Javier Mart?nez wrote:
> I think it's not a good idea to do what you have done, people answers
> questions if they know the answer and they want to do it (and have
> time to do so). Please think that you didn't pay anybody to demand
> nothing.

I understand, but I don't think something was wrong in this case.

At first, I don't just "demand answers", I also spend my own time
contributing to community - answer questions in different maillists,
submit to bugzilla, etc. And have enough free soft and documentation on my
home website.

At second, I don't just "refresh" that thread, but add new information
about topic which may be important for people who trying to find answer or
for people who will search this maillist later looking for same issue.

> I don't use grsecurity but it seems that cat needs to growth their
> stack over the hard limit imposed (look for "ulimit -a") and it's not
> permitted (to avoid DOS maybe), look for some grsec resource that
> impose limits to your stack and others (as open files, cpu time...),
> if it's related to grsec (as it seems to be) you will need to make
> this limit bigger.

Sorry, but this isn't an answer I looking for. I know several ways how to
silence it - for example, I can just filter these records from logs.
My questions isn't "how to fix it", but "what is it" instead. Before
fixing something it's always good idea to understand what and why you're
fixing first.

I don't understand these errors, and that's my problem.
If it's just "ulimit" thing, then it mean kernel should KILL these
processes. But this isn't happens - or there should be other noticeable
issues like undelivered mail or so, which I don't notice for now.

-- 
			WBR, Alex.