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SubjectRe: Fork Bombing Patch
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On 20/08/07, Anand Jahagirdar <anandjigar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> I think Its not worth to make it configurable just for one printk
> statement. am i missing something?
>

I think you are missing the fact that there are lots of situations
where users may hit the configured process limit without that being an
indication of a fork bomb (or other) attack.
This means that there will be many systems that will trigger your
warning where there really is no problem. That's a good reason for a)
making the message KERN_INFO and b) let administrators somehow disable
it completely.

Personally I'm wondering if we even want/need this at all.

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