Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Nov 2002 07:10:21 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: uml-patch-2.5.49-1 |
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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.
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