Re: [uml-user] understanding child process

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

Russell,

Am 04.05.2017 um 23:10 schrieb Russell Lewis:
> I'm going to quibble (or maybe clarify?) a bit here.  Since UML is a process inside the host kernel, it should have the same power as any other application you run.  If you
> fork-bomb with an ordinary application, I'd expect that you would eventually get errors from the fork() syscall - but in the process, you might also make it impossible to spawn off
> new sshd processes - making it impossible to log in.
> 
> I'd be a little dismayed if you could *crash* the host with a fork bomb, though.  And I don't really care whether the "bad" process is UML, or anything else.
> 
> Experts: Am I missing something?

I assumed that "crash" meant something like "system went unresponsive" and not a kernel panic of
the host.
If you setup your resource limits correctly a fork bomb will be stopped.

Thanks,
//richard