svn commit: r331880 - stable/11/etc

[Niclas Zeising]

On 04/02/18 17:39, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>> Author: kevans
>> Date: Mon Apr  2 15:28:48 2018
>> New Revision: 331880
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/331880
>>
>> Log:
>>    MFC r328331: Support configuring arbitrary limits(1) for any rc.conf daemon
>>    
>>    Usage is ${name}_limits, and the argument is any flags accepted by
>>    limits(1), such as `-n 100' (e.g. only allow 100 open files).
>>
>> Modified:
>>    stable/11/etc/rc.subr
>> Directory Properties:
>>    stable/11/   (props changed)
>>
>> Modified: stable/11/etc/rc.subr
>> ==============================================================================
>> --- stable/11/etc/rc.subr	Mon Apr  2 15:07:41 2018	(r331879)
>> +++ stable/11/etc/rc.subr	Mon Apr  2 15:28:48 2018	(r331880)
>> @@ -773,6 +773,8 @@ check_startmsgs()
>>   #
>>   #	${name}_login_class n	Login class to use, else "daemon".
>>   #
>> +#	${name}_limits	n	limits(1) to apply to ${command}.
>> +#
> 
> Caution, limits(1) is in /usr/bin, this code can fail if used before
> /usr is mounted.  (Ie, our rc.initdiskless) is probably broken by
> this change if a call is made to limits.
> 
> 

Sorry for jumping on this so late.  This is also an issue in CURRENT, 
and has been since at least 2016.

See https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=206291

Regards
-- 
Niclas