Re: [PATCH] Reserve N process to root

[David Newall]

Gustavo Chain wrote:
> El Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:19:27 +0930
> David Newall <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribiÃ:
>   
> > 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.)
> >     
>
> Â 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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