[Pam-developers] pam_limits: Verify that the process found from the utmp record is still alive

Tomas Mraz tmraz at redhat.com
Mon Jan 20 08:26:52 UTC 2014


The utmp entry for an user might be wrong for example when the process
that should update the entry on logout crashes. This patch by
Christopher Hailey tries to verify that the process that is associated
with the utmp record is still alive. Of course this is not perfectly
race-free but still better than nothing.
OK to commit?
-- 
Tomas Mraz
No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back.
                                              Turkish proverb
(You'll never know whether the road is wrong though.)
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