18 Oct
2000
18 Oct
'00
8:25 p.m.
Tim Harrison <harrison(a)timharrison.com> wrote:
Not so. Ever just clicked repeatedly on the back
arrow in Netscape
4.75? If you hit one of those pages that won't let you use the Back
arrow to return, you'll lock the entire box. Netscape is garbage, yes,
[Neil wrote much the same thing.]
I've done such things with Netscape, and I've never managed to
get it to crash the Linux kernel. I've had Netscape crash, and I've had
it crash the X server, and I've had it use up all available VM, but
in all cases the Linux kernel continued running just fine.
Arguably it is a deficiency in the kernel that per-process memory limits
aren't implemented (despite there being an API to set them).
The only times I've had seen crashes have been when my hardware was flaky
or I was running a development kernel, or a locally patched "stable" kernel.
Anyhow, this is way off topic.