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Re: ANNOUNCE: secure identd v0.3


From: kragen () POBOX COM (Kragen)
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 08:40:08 -0400


On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Wietse Venema wrote:
For example, when all data objects have limited size, and when the
number of objects instances is limited, so is the amount of memory
required to hold those objects.

This is often not sufficient, though.  The canonical example is Unix
limits -- it may be fine for a user to run 50 processes, and for a user
to run a 75MB Emacs process, but that doesn't imply they ought to be
able to run 50 75MB processes.

Kragen

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