Hi,
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000 19:22:00 -0500 (EST), "Alan Curry"
<pacman-kernel@cqc.com> said:
> Why do you assume ENOMEM results in death? The whole point is that it doesn't
> need to. Critical processes like init can sleep and retry after ENOMEM.
Even if they do, that's still a denial of service attack. And what
happens if the process's stack grows? There's no ENOMEM there ---
that's an unconditional process death unless the process has installed
both an alternate signal stack and a SIGBUS handler.
--Stephen
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