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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 21:33:45 +0100
From: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init
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SodaPop wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> 
> > SodaPop wrote:
> > >
> > > Rik, is there any way we could get a /proc entry for this, so that one
> > > could do something like:
> >
> > I will respond; NO there is no way for security reasons this is not a
> > good idea.
> >
> > > cat /proc/oom-kill-scores | sort +3
> 
> Oh, you mean like /proc/kcore is a bad idea for security reasons?

Yes. It should be the good old /dev/core anyway.
But its far more obscure to hack at, since it isn't plain text,
so basically it's far more difficult to get mands on it...
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