Michael Mol schrieb: >> Sounds like a great feature. A crashed process is a buggy one, and I >> would want to investigate said program before I relaunched it, and >> not have it automatically relaunched as if nothing had happened. > > That's highly, highly, highly use-case dependent. If it's a > non-critical service, or in a non-critical environment, that's one > thing. If it's a service whose downtime can be measured in value lost, > that's quite another.
You could be looking at someone trying to compromise your system through a buffer overflow or similar vulnerability. If you enable automatic respawn then congratulations, you just gave the attacker unlimited tries to guess the correct address/offset for his exploit. Best regards, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
