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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Patrick Finnegan <pat@purdueriots.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: uml-patch-2.5.49-1
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 07:10:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021126061021.GA17959@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211260105400.7540-100000@ibm-ps850.purdueriots.com>

> One reason I can think of is that it prevents 'stupid things' happening
> under a copy of UML from killing the OS UML is running under... Eg. if a
> process is running under UML because it's not trusted and then turns into
> a forkbomb, you don't want that taking down the host OS.

You could limit that with an appropiate ulimit.

Also a 'mm-bomb' could be similarly deadly without appropiate host limits.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-26  6:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200211260517.AAA05038@ccure.karaya.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-11-26  5:57 ` uml-patch-2.5.49-1 Andi Kleen
2002-11-26  6:07   ` uml-patch-2.5.49-1 Patrick Finnegan
2002-11-26  6:10     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2002-11-26  7:02       ` uml-patch-2.5.49-1 Patrick Finnegan
2002-11-26 16:45         ` uml-patch-2.5.49-1 Rik van Riel
2002-11-26 18:29   ` uml-patch-2.5.49-1 Jeff Dike
2002-11-26 19:37     ` uml-patch-2.5.49-1 Andreas Dilger
2002-11-26 21:07       ` uml-patch-2.5.49-1 Jeff Dike
     [not found] <20021126061021.GA17959@wotan.suse.de.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211260159440.7540-100000@ibm-ps850.purdueriots.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-11-26  7:08   ` uml-patch-2.5.49-1 Andi Kleen
2002-11-26  5:17 uml-patch-2.5.49-1 Jeff Dike
2002-11-26 14:14 ` uml-patch-2.5.49-1 jlnance
2002-11-26 18:33   ` uml-patch-2.5.49-1 Jeff Dike
2002-11-27  2:29     ` uml-patch-2.5.49-1 H. Peter Anvin
2002-11-27  4:06       ` uml-patch-2.5.49-1 Jeff Dike
2002-11-27  4:30         ` uml-patch-2.5.49-1 H. Peter Anvin
2002-11-27  5:08           ` uml-patch-2.5.49-1 Jeff Dike

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