On Sat, 29 May 1999 07:51:25 +1000, Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au> said:
> Why not just increase the RT signal queue size? Add a command to
> prctl(2) so the application can tune this.
Letting the application increase the queue size opens up a DOS attack:
you can lock down arbitrarily much non-swappable memory with it. root
can already tune it via /proc/sys/kernel/rtsig-max.
--Stephen
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