> >> I'm looking for a way to keep track of the processes that fail to
> >> allocate new
> >> virtual memory. What do you think about the following approach
> >> (untested)?
> > Looks like an easy way for users to spam syslogd over and
> > over and over again.
> > At the very least, shouldn't this be dependant on print_fatal_signals?
>
> Anyway, with print-fatal-signals enabled a user could spam syslogd too, simply
> with a (char *)0 = 0 program, but we could always identify the spam attempts
> logging the process uid...
Yeah well it's all captured by syslogd/klogd and written to a file and
diskspace is cheap.
Folkert van Heusden
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