Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932855AbXHWVre (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:47:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761493AbXHWVr0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:47:26 -0400 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:44783 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756049AbXHWVrZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:47:25 -0400 To: Chris Snook Cc: Anand Jahagirdar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Fork Bombing Patch References: <25ae38200708152324t4cbadc24ge05cd75f8f0e60e4@mail.gmail.com> <46C4BC46.7000305@redhat.com> <25ae38200708200724sbce2749m7eb27565d7c84e5e@mail.gmail.com> <46C9A867.6090509@redhat.com> <25ae38200708212317h7776768v33a82f646ac6b749@mail.gmail.com> <46CDD98F.2020208@redhat.com> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:47:22 +0200 In-Reply-To: <46CDD98F.2020208@redhat.com> (Chris Snook's message of "Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:01:35 -0400") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 814 Lines: 20 Chris Snook writes: > Wrapping a single printk that's unrelated to debugging in an #ifdef > CONFIG_* or a sysctl strikes me as abuse of those configuration > facilities. Abuse, probably not (if a thing is required on one system and must not be on another, it has to be configurable). If the printk is a good idea... IMHO hardly, at best. We don't warn about trying to write to /vmlinuz after all. ulimit/pam_limits should fix the (IMHO nonexistent) problem nicely. One has to plug all the holes, though (e.g. $HOME/.forward). -- Krzysztof Halasa - 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/