Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261674AbVDEJyA (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 05:54:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261685AbVDEJwB (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 05:52:01 -0400 Received: from smtp-out.tiscali.no ([213.142.64.144]:30982 "EHLO smtp-out.tiscali.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261674AbVDEJrL (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 05:47:11 -0400 Subject: Re: forkbombing Linux distributions From: Natanael Copa To: Lee Revell Cc: Jacek =?iso-8859-2?Q?=A3uczak?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1112289106.1829.10.camel@mindpipe> References: <424AE48C.8000805@pin.if.uz.zgora.pl> <1112263230.1165.15.camel@nc> <1112289106.1829.10.camel@mindpipe> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 11:47:09 +0200 Message-Id: <1112694429.32468.27.camel@nc> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1317 Lines: 34 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. -- Natanael Copa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/