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On 26 Nov 2002, Andi Kleen wrote: > Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com> writes: > > main points: > > the kernel is in a separate process and address space from its processes > > UML processes share a single host process > > Can you quickly describe why you didn't use one host process per uml > process ? > > That would have avoided the need for a /proc/mm extension too I guess. 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. Pat -- Purdue Universtiy ITAP/RCS Information Technology at Purdue Research Computing and Storage http://www-rcd.cc.purdue.edu - 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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