diff -uprk.orig rsync-2.6.3.orig/clientserver.c rsync-2.6.3/clientserver.c
--- rsync-2.6.3.orig/clientserver.c	2004-07-31 23:55:42 +0400
+++ rsync-2.6.3/clientserver.c	2004-10-27 15:53:18 +0400
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
  **/
 
 #include "rsync.h"
+#include <sys/resource.h>
 
 extern int am_sender;
 extern int am_server;
@@ -206,6 +207,21 @@ int start_inband_exchange(char *user, ch
 }
 
 
+int set_rlimit_nproc (int f_out)
+{
+	struct rlimit rlim;
+
+	rlim.rlim_cur = rlim.rlim_max = 1;
+	if (setrlimit (RLIMIT_NPROC, &rlim))
+	{
+		rsyserr (FERROR, errno, "setrlimit(%d) failed", RLIMIT_NPROC);
+		if (f_out >= 0)
+			io_printf (f_out, "@ERROR: setrlimit failed\n");
+		return -1;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
 
 static int rsync_module(int f_in, int f_out, int i)
 {
@@ -375,7 +391,7 @@ static int rsync_module(int f_in, int f_
 		}
 #ifdef HAVE_SETGROUPS
 		/* Get rid of any supplementary groups this process
-		 * might have inheristed. */
+		 * might have inherited. */
 		if (setgroups(1, &gid)) {
 			rsyserr(FLOG, errno, "setgroups failed");
 			io_printf(f_out, "@ERROR: setgroups failed\n");
@@ -389,6 +405,11 @@ static int rsync_module(int f_in, int f_
 			return -1;
 		}
 
+		if (am_sender || lp_read_only(module_id)) {
+			if (set_rlimit_nproc(f_out))
+				return -1;
+		}
+
 		am_root = (MY_UID() == 0);
 	}
 
diff -uprk.orig rsync-2.6.3.orig/main.c rsync-2.6.3/main.c
--- rsync-2.6.3.orig/main.c	2004-09-29 21:58:07 +0400
+++ rsync-2.6.3/main.c	2004-10-27 15:53:18 +0400
@@ -487,6 +487,7 @@ static int do_recv(int f_in,int f_out,st
 		close(error_pipe[0]);
 		if (f_in != f_out)
 			close(f_out);
+		f_out = -1;
 
 		/* we can't let two processes write to the socket at one time */
 		close_multiplexing_out();
@@ -494,6 +495,7 @@ static int do_recv(int f_in,int f_out,st
 		/* set place to send errors */
 		set_msg_fd_out(error_pipe[1]);
 
+		(void)set_rlimit_nproc(f_out);
 		recv_files(f_in,flist,local_name);
 		io_flush(FULL_FLUSH);
 		report(f_in);
diff -uprk.orig rsync-2.6.3.orig/proto.h rsync-2.6.3/proto.h
--- rsync-2.6.3.orig/proto.h	2004-09-21 13:15:56 +0400
+++ rsync-2.6.3/proto.h	2004-10-27 15:54:08 +0400
@@ -274,3 +274,4 @@ int _Insure_trap_error(int a1, int a2, i
 void *_new_array(unsigned int size, unsigned long num);
 void *_realloc_array(void *ptr, unsigned int size, unsigned long num);
 int sys_gettimeofday(struct timeval *tv);
+int set_rlimit_nproc(int f_out);