Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:14:06 +0930 | From | David Newall <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Reserve N process to root |
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Gustavo Chain wrote: > El Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:19:27 +0930 > David Newall <david@davidnewall.com> escribió: > >> Gustavo Chain wrote: >> >>> I think it's necessary to reserve some pids to the super user. >>> 5 must be sufficient. >>> >> Why? (Sorry if I missed something.) >> > > ¿ To prevent a posible DoS ? >
That was what I thought you had in mind; it protects from some kind of fork bomb, right? But it doesn't seem useful unless you guarantee having a process already running (with CAP_SYS_ADMIN) *before* the bomb goes off.
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