Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933872AbXKPVip (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:38:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762926AbXKPVia (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:38:30 -0500 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.186]:38561 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932375AbXKPVi3 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:38:29 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=inoeusxa8UmE5PHpTBU1XjgVTQfFZ6tBr728y09XxKKhneWoUpJ30aVr++dct0tVwGlA4Jv3+Hl23OGiYmqkGWrDtsgeaRdLXkZfn4txKJgOtcLUK/1LV6LRh5FSAxiNS1HZK02q/cYDpsEdlkGm6wFPzcot4qFoCI1bPC6qwdU= Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:38:15 +0100 From: Diego Calleja To: Martin Olsson Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ubuntu Devel Discuss Subject: Re: Is it possible to give the user the option to cancel forkbombs? Message-Id: <20071116223815.f5042072.diegocg@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <473E815F.30900@minimum.se> References: <473E815F.30900@minimum.se> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.5 (GTK+ 2.12.0; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 956 Lines: 27 El Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:51:27 -0800, Martin Olsson escribi?: > Dear kernel hackers, > > This is a message from below 0x7FFFFFFF. Please look at this bug (it's > not a new concept but still): > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/163185 Can't see that page: ---------------------- Not allowed here Sorry, you don't have permission to access this page. ---------------- > CTRL-ALT-DEL to work. Maybe it's possible to set some kind of > MAX_PROCESS_COUNT for each user (I don't know) but it looks like this is > not done by default in many distros today? Per-user process limits have been there for a long time, most of distros don't use them and don't offer GUIs to configure them. - 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/