Re: 2.4.20-4.15 anytime soon?

On Saturday 12 June 2004 19:45, ian sison (mailing list) wrote:

Hi Ian,

> And to you of course who makes it all happen! :)

:-)


> > .oO( I still don't get it why Brad removes good features in every new
> > version, thinking about fork bomb protection, tty/pts root login
> > restrictions and holy shitload more things )Oo.
> No more fork bomb protection?  Hmm.  I think i'll stick with 1.x for
> awhile then.

nono, fork bomb protection was ripped out during grsec 1.9.5 or so. So neither 
using grsec1 or grsec2 gives you back that feature. Brad said we can simply 
use PAM for that. He's right but I like to have such features in the kernel. 
Maybe I'll re-add it, dunno.

ciao, Marc



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