On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Alan Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote:
> Andreas Robinson started some work to replace "install" commands like > this with a "soft dependency" directive, which included detection of > infinite recursion. I moaned about his initial proof-of-concept and > nothing further has been posted. I don't want to nag; I'll just say > that would be a really nice way to make sure these forkbombs can't > happen (provided the config files are updated to take advantage of > it). > I haven't abandoned it. Your objections made it a more challenging project though, so I felt it was safer to take a break from it before things got really messy. :-) I don't mind getting back to it though, now that it's a more urgent problem. I should be able to work on it again tonight. Cheers, Andreas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-modules" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
