Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756251Ab1DNAUp (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:20:45 -0400 Received: from fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.35]:36537 "EHLO fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750871Ab1DNAUo (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:20:44 -0400 X-SecurityPolicyCheck-FJ: OK by FujitsuOutboundMailChecker v1.3.1 From: KOSAKI Motohiro To: Minchan Kim Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] forkbomb killer Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Andrew Morton , Hiroyuki Kamezawa , Michel Lespinasse , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "rientjes@google.com" , Andrey Vagin , Hugh Dickins , Johannes Weiner , Rik van Riel In-Reply-To: References: <20110329101234.54d5d45a.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Message-Id: <20110414092033.0809.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.56.05 [ja] Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:20:41 +0900 (JST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 976 Lines: 29 Hi, Minchan, Kamezawa-san, > >> So whenever user push sysrq, older tasks would be killed and at last, > >> root forkbomb task would be killed. > >> > > > > Maybe good for a single user system and it can send Sysrq. > > But I myself not very excited with this new feature becasuse I need to > > run to push Sysrq .... > > > > Please do as you like, I think the idea itself is interesting. > > But I love some automatic ones. I do other jobs. > > Okay. Thanks for the comment, Kame. > > I hope Andrew or someone gives feedback forkbomb problem itself before > diving into this. May I ask current status of this thread? I'm unhappy if our kernel keep to have forkbomb weakness. ;) Can we consider to take either or both idea? -- 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/