Re: Is it possible to give the user the option to cancel forkbombs?

2007-11-17 Thread Dane Mutters
On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 16:53 +0100, Diego Calleja wrote: > El Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:42:51 -0800, Martin Olsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > escribió: > > > I don't think that setting a max process count by default is a > > good/viable solution. > > > I don't see why...OS X had a default limit of 100 p

Re: Is it possible to give the user the option to cancel forkbombs?

2007-11-16 Thread Dane Mutters
I thought you might find this helpful. (I brought this issue up with the Slackware folks once, and they told me basically this.) http://wiki.craz1.homelinux.com/index.php/Linux:Security:Forkbomb I was also told that the ability to spawn such rampant forks/processes is controlled by default in De