El Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:14:06 +0930 David Newall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> Gustavo Chain wrote: > > El Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:19:27 +0930 > > David Newall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > >> Gustavo Chain wrote: > >> > >>> I think it's necessary to reserve some pids to the super user. > >>> 5 must be sufficient. > >>> > >> Why? (Sorry if I missed something.) > >> > > > > ¿ To prevent a posible DoS ? > > > > That was what I thought you had in mind; it protects from some kind > 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. -- Gustavo Chaín Dumit - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
