Re: uml-patch-2.5.49-1

Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Tue, 26 Nov 2002 07:10:21 +0100

> 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.

You could limit that with an appropiate ulimit.

Also a 'mm-bomb' could be similarly deadly without appropiate host limits.

-Andi
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