Re: ANNOUNCE: secure identd v0.3

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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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