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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Reserve N process to root
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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