Re: fork()

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"AL" == Alex Leipold <aleipoldclark.net> writes:

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

AL> [...classic fork bomb code...]

Why go to such troubles?  You can often make a box just as comatose
(though you should not be able to crash it) with the following command:

$ perl -n /dev/zero

(Of course this only works on systems with /dev/zero.)

As with the other method, limiting/reducing a user's max. process size
will reduce the ill effects from this...

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