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> One reason I can think of is that it prevents 'stupid things' happening > under a copy of UML from killing the OS UML is running under... Eg. if a > process is running under UML because it's not trusted and then turns into > a forkbomb, you don't want that taking down the host OS. You could limit that with an appropiate ulimit. Also a 'mm-bomb' could be similarly deadly without appropiate host limits. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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