Re: Fork Bombing Attack

[Mark Lord]

Anand Jahagirdar wrote:
> Hello All
>           I tried to execute a program which creates 8152 process.(
> i=0; while( i<14) i++ fork(); )  with ulimit 8200. This program
> created 8152 processes and then stopped and came back to command
> prompt. this proves that my machine do have sufficient resources to
> create 8000 processes.

Perhaps, but it does not necessarily result in 8000+ processes
all in existence at the same time.  Unless there's more to that
program than the one line you show above.
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