On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 15:19 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 16:27 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Fernando > > Lopez-Lezcano<na...@ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote: > > > Hmmm, did Lennart specifically answer the issue of the clone bomb? I > > > can't remember and the thread is looong (I had a couple of points that I > > > made that seemed to be valid and never got a confirmation reply)... > > > > i believe he claimed the watchdog deals with this.
This is what I think is the relevant part of his answer: > On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 17:26 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > What SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK fixes is that a process cannot fork() (as in > process) to evade the kill() of a supervisor process. > > Without this flag you always have a race where the killer process > would have a hard time killing a process that is duplicating itself > exponentially. > > What matter is that to put an end to the thread bomb process all we > need to do is one call to kill(). Hmmm, so fork bombs are more difficult (impossible?) to eradicate without the SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK patch), thread bombs are done with one kill one way or the other, would that be correct? And the watchdog deals with both. -- Fernando _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
