Subject: Re: siginfo, signal queues, memory issues
To: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
From: Lord Isildur <mrfusion@uranium.vaxpower.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/28/2002 11:47:57
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
> I agree with Soda on rest of items. Particularily, there indeed
> needs to be system limit on number of queued signals. I'm not sure

a per-process limit should be enforced as well, to prevent a more 
limited-scope DoS.. and perhaps if we get fancy, reserve a slot in the 
per-process quota for a process running as root to send to, to prevent 
processes from rendering themselves more unkillable by keeping their own 
signal queues full , thereby rejecting KILLs, XCPUs, STOPs, and the like? 

Isildur