Gustavo Chain wrote:
El Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:19:27 +0930
David Newall <[email protected]> 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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