I've seen some people saying that user-limits are an essential part of a
secure system to prevent local DoS attacks. Given that, should
a system call like 'fork' return -EPERM if the user has reached their
limit?
My local manpage (SuSE 7.2 system) says this under fork:
ERRORS
EAGAIN fork cannot allocate sufficient memory to copy the
parent's page tables and allocate a task structure
for the child.
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Should the man page be updated to reflect that EAGAIN is returned
when the user has reached their limit? From a user-monitoring point
of view, it might be security relevant to know if a EAGAIN is being
returned because the system really is low on resources or if it
is a user hitting their limit.
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