linux-kernel - Re: Fork Bombing Patch

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Message-ID: <m34pipgbyt.fsf@maximus.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:47:22 +0200
From:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
To:	Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com>
Cc:	Anand Jahagirdar <anandjigar@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fork Bombing Patch

Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com> writes:

> Wrapping a single printk that's unrelated to debugging in an #ifdef
> CONFIG_* or a sysctl strikes me as abuse of those configuration
> facilities.

Abuse, probably not (if a thing is required on one system and must
not be on another, it has to be configurable). If the printk is
a good idea... IMHO hardly, at best. We don't warn about trying to
write to /vmlinuz after all.

ulimit/pam_limits should fix the (IMHO nonexistent) problem nicely.
One has to plug all the holes, though (e.g. $HOME/.forward).
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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