Re: forkbombing Linux distributions

Natanael Copa
2005-04-05T09:54:00Z

On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 12:11 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:

> Didn't you ever look up what a ulimit is?

ofcourse i did. I just think that ulimit (or other userspace tools)
should be used to *raise* the limit if you need more. Not the reverse.

> If you consider your distro's default ulimits unreasonable, file a bug
> report with them. But no one is going to make Linux "restrictive by
> default" to make life easier for people who don't bother to RTFM.

I already suggested ulimit solutions for my distro. They think that if
this is needed the kernel dev's would do something (ie its a kernel
problem) while the kernel dev's says this is a userspace prob.

I wouldn't bother if this was a problem for one or two distros only.
Now, almost all distros seems to be vulnerable by default.

I wouldn't bother if other *nixes would set this limit in userspace.
(the BSD's set the limit lower in kernel and let users who need more
raise with userland tools)

I wouldn't bother if this wouldn't give Linux a bad reputation.

I'm Sorry if I made some people upset.

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Natanael Copa