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author | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2020-07-06 16:31:57 +0200 |
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committer | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2020-07-06 16:32:33 +0200 |
commit | 8dc647fd305d23380cb1b1a9123e31f0fcc9a4e9 (patch) | |
tree | c206ef8555d3e91ec175af9634e9c2fd779b73bd /docs/USER_RECORD.md | |
parent | man: one more typo (diff) | |
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man: do not say that tasks are threads and processes
This is confusing because the reader might think that processes and threads are
counted separately. Another issue pointed out in #16363.
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diff --git a/docs/USER_RECORD.md b/docs/USER_RECORD.md index 885a94858d..877d213e46 100644 --- a/docs/USER_RECORD.md +++ b/docs/USER_RECORD.md @@ -368,11 +368,11 @@ directory is first created, and defaults to `/etc/skel` if not defined. access mask for the home directory when it is first created. `tasksMax` → Takes an unsigned 64bit integer indicating the maximum number of -tasks the user may start in parallel during system runtime. This value is -enforced on all tasks (i.e. processes and threads) the user starts or that are -forked off these processes regardless if the change user identity (for example -by setuid binaries/`su`/`sudo` and -similar). [`systemd-logind.service`](https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-logind.service.html) +tasks the user may start in parallel during system runtime. This counts +all tasks (i.e. threads, where each process is at least one thread) the user starts or that are +forked from these processes even if the user identity is changed (for example +by setuid binaries/`su`/`sudo` and similar). +[`systemd-logind.service`](https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-logind.service.html) enforces this by setting the `TasksMax` slice property for the user's slice `user-$UID.slice`. |