1 ================================= 2 Documentation for /proc/sys/user/ 3 ================================= 4 5 kernel version 4.9.0 6 7 Copyright (c) 2016 Eric Biederman< 8 9 ---------------------------------------------- 10 11 This file contains the documentation for the s 12 /proc/sys/user. 13 14 The files in this directory can be used to ove 15 limits on the number of namespaces and other o 16 per user per user namespace limits. 17 18 The primary purpose of these limits is to stop 19 malfunction and attempt to create a ridiculous 20 before the malfunction becomes a system wide p 21 intention that the defaults of these limits ar 22 no program in normal operation should run into 23 24 The creation of per user per user namespace ob 25 the user in the user namespace who created the 26 verified to be below the per user limit in tha 27 28 The creation of objects is also charged to all 29 who created user namespaces the creation of th 30 in (user namespaces can be nested) and verifie 31 limits in the user namespaces of those users. 32 33 This recursive counting of created objects ens 34 user namespace does not allow a user to escape 35 36 Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/user: 37 38 max_cgroup_namespaces 39 ===================== 40 41 The maximum number of cgroup namespaces that 42 user namespace may create. 43 44 max_ipc_namespaces 45 ================== 46 47 The maximum number of ipc namespaces that an 48 user namespace may create. 49 50 max_mnt_namespaces 51 ================== 52 53 The maximum number of mount namespaces that 54 user namespace may create. 55 56 max_net_namespaces 57 ================== 58 59 The maximum number of network namespaces tha 60 current user namespace may create. 61 62 max_pid_namespaces 63 ================== 64 65 The maximum number of pid namespaces that an 66 user namespace may create. 67 68 max_time_namespaces 69 =================== 70 71 The maximum number of time namespaces that a 72 user namespace may create. 73 74 max_user_namespaces 75 =================== 76 77 The maximum number of user namespaces that a 78 user namespace may create. 79 80 max_uts_namespaces 81 ================== 82 83 The maximum number of user namespaces that a 84 user namespace may create.
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