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[Richard Jones]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:16:27PM +0000, Nix wrote:
> On 12 Nov 2009, Richard Jones outgrape:
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 09:39:21PM +0000, Nix wrote:
> >> On 10 Nov 2009, Avi Greenbury spake thusly:
> >> > [0] Yes, applications should be able to fail without taking the OS with
> >> > them. This is still an issue in Windows.
> >> 
> >> And on Linux unless rlimits *and* process count limits are set, which is
> >> very rare because setting them both so low that malloc()ing fork bombs
> >> can't take the machine down constrains things too much for most real
> >> uses.
> >
> > One day the OpenVZ folk may finally succeed in merging User
> > Beancounters, which solves this problem nicely.
> 
> It was never merged? I thought it was merged *years* ago. How annoying.

I just checked again, and no it's not in the Linus tree.

Rich.

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