Sun 21 Oct 2012 06:11:37 PM UTC, original submission:
Hello.
I have a Gentoo amd64 machine with man-db 2.6.3 and linux kernel 3.5.4 patched with grsecurity patches. Every time I run `man man` as root I get lots of the following warnings in syslog:
When this command run as non-root user from a wheel group or as man user itself everything is fine.
Appropriate parts of limits.conf:
Of course, root is also in wheel group and `ulimit -aH` as root says:
I wonder, why root user is treated so specially by man-db and doesn't have the appropriate limits? And why there are more than 100 threads (or forks or smth else) just to show man page?
I've attached a couple of debugging outputs and an strace one. Could you please answer the above questions?
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