rlimit sandbox on cygwin

Corinna Vinschen vinschen at redhat.com
Fri Jul 6 18:24:40 EST 2012


On Jul  6 10:23, Darren Tucker wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 04:48:15PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> [...]
> > Please use the latest one.  We don't support sshd on any pre 1.7
> > version of Cygwin anymore.
> 
> OK, I've updated it.  (I didn't set out to deliberately keep it old, I'd
> just had not particular reason to update it.)
> 
> > A function equivalent to setrlimit(RLIMIT_FSIZE) is not supported
> > by Windows.  Therefore setting or checking this limit doesn't make
> > much sense.
> > 
> > > On second thought, it might be better to explicitly test RLIMIT_FSIZE in
> > > configure, like so.
> > 
> > Sounds good to me.
> 
> Done.  It'll test setrlimit(RLIMIT_FSIZE) at configure time, and if that
> fails we'll simply skip it at runtime.  This means that
> UsePriviligeSeparation=sandbox now works on Cygwin (with the
> weak-but-better-than-nothing rlimit sandbox).

Cool!  Thanks for doing that.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Project Co-Leader
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