Another old security problem

Posted Sep 15, 2010 9:10 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Another old security problem by spender
Parent article: Another old security problem

Rilder made a perfectly good point: applications do not generally need vast stacks (not even Emacs!). Thus it is reasonable to impose a hard limit.

That distros generally impose soft limits instead (for no particularly obvious reason in the case of stack size) is no barrier to imposing a hard limit yourself.