I think it's fair to say that it's a problem that I can login to my shared web hosting company and run some command that makes the whole server unresponsive for several minutes. For this reason (and to avoid the laptop crash), I would like to see a change ubuntu default config here.
Maybe ubuntu devs feel that a default limit is bad for some reason? If so, one idea would be to allow the administrator to say "maximum X processes can be created every Y seconds", such a feature could be use to set a pretty non-intrusive default value that prevents crashes. When one argues that "user should not do stupid things" one should look at the broad picture of how the industry has changed within the last decade or so. We now typically try to combat problems such as phishing using engineering counter measures (I won't comment on the pros/cons here, clearly some software gets it right and other doesn't). If there was a command one could run as a non-admin on Vista (or such) to crash the whole box it would certainly not be dismissed as "user should not do that" kind of problem, no? -- ubuntu freezes completely (all graphics and mouse) when executing shell ascii forkbomb https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/163185 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
