Re: [uml-user] understanding child process

[Richard W. <ri...@no...>]

Am 04.05.2017 um 22:32 schrieb Lakshmipathi.G:
> Thanks for the details. I checked it by creating 5 new process (sleep
> 120 &) while running pstree from host. Nice, didn't know that we can
> control(kill) UML process from host too.

Well, "control". ;-)
You can kill UML processes on the host side and confuse UML horrible.

> I test ran a fork-bomb inside UML, it crashed the host. Is that
> expected behavior? Is there a way to prevent this?

Yes.

UML is an userspace application like any other is, you have to
protect your host from fork-bombing.
It does not matter whether UML starts many processes or an evil user.

Thanks,
//richard