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Re:Docker can forkbomb the host system: `docker run busybox ... by thriqon on Friday January 22, 2016 @04:07PM (#10955633)
Why shouldn't it? ssh can do the same on a remote host, yet no one complains about that ;-)
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Re:Docker can forkbomb the host system: `docker run busybox ... by eeZi on Saturday January 23, 2016 @04:18AM (#10957767)
Yeah but people tend to mistake containers with VMs, and you cannot do this with VMs.
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