"Little, John" wrote:
>
> I'm really not a programmer, just learning, but was able to bring the system
> to it's knees. This is a redhat 7.2 kernel. Is there anyway of preventing
> this?
Use resource limits on users and don't run fork bombs as root :)
>
> #include <unistd.h>
>
> void do_fork()
> {
> pid_t p;
>
> p = fork();
> do_fork();
> }
>
> void main()
> {
> for(;;)
> do_fork();
> }
>
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