El Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:14:06 +0930
David Newall <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribiÃ:
Gustavo Chain wrote:
El Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:19:27 +0930That was what I thought you had in mind; it protects from some kind
David Newall <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribiÃ:
Gustavo Chain wrote:Â To prevent a posible DoS ?
I think it's necessary to reserve some pids to the super user.Why? (Sorry if I missed something.)
5 must be sufficient.
of fork bomb, right? But it doesn't seem useful unless you guarantee having a process already running (with CAP_SYS_ADMIN) *before* the
bomb goes off.
Not really, because fork bomb will never reach maximum pid possible.
And root will always have a "slot" to kill desired processes.