Subject: Re: CVS commit: syssrc/sys/kern
To: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
From: Roland Dowdeswell <elric@imrryr.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/09/2002 19:10:11
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Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
>
>I think that this makes most sense. It can trivially be switched on
>for systems where this would be useful (or when actual fork-bomb lands),
>but wouldn't do anything to people who don't explicitly turn it on.
>Would everyone be happy with this? Perry, Thor, Michael, others?
I actually don't think that we should even bother with this. It
gives the impression that we believe that the hack has value, which
I do not think that it does. If we are decidedly going down the
path of solving this problem (forkbombs), then let us come up with
a solution to it and commit that instead.
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Roland Dowdeswell http://www.Imrryr.ORG/~elric/