linux-kernel - Re: Fork Bombing Patch

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708161324370.7114@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Date:	Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:27:10 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
cc:	Anand Jahagirdar <anandjigar@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fork Bombing Patch


On Aug 16 2007 13:19, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
>
>At least make that configurable - on some systems users are allowed
>50 processes or so and I'm sure admins don't really want to know
>which particular users are currently close to limits.
>
>I don't really find the above useful. Perhaps we should warn when users
>try to write to R/O files or execute root-only commands etc?

At least make that configurable.


	Jan
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