Re: The stack and digital unix binaries

[Neil Carlson <nnc lanl gov>]

Greg Lindahl wrote:
> 
> <stuff about the stack size limit>
>
> If you don't like the hard limit, then you can raise it by editing
> /etc/security/limits.conf (may be a RedHat-only hack, I dunno.)

I don't know what this does on your system but on my RH 5.2 systems
it doesn't do squat.  This file is part of pam, and looks to me to
be a placeholder for some future functionality.

Is it possible to cat a value to some special file in /proc to 
change the limit dynamically?  (I'm running 2.2.x)  Otherwise I'll
have to resort to editing the kernel source.

-Neil
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