> Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com> writes:
> > main points:
> > the kernel is in a separate process and address space from its processes
> > UML processes share a single host process
>
> Can you quickly describe why you didn't use one host process per uml
> process ?
>
> That would have avoided the need for a /proc/mm extension too I guess.
One reason I can think of is that it prevents 'stupid things' happening
under a copy of UML from killing the OS UML is running under... Eg. if a
process is running under UML because it's not trusted and then turns into
a forkbomb, you don't want that taking down the host OS.
Pat
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