Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:38:41 +0200 | From | "Jesper Juhl" <> | Subject | Re: 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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