Fork bomb.
Shane R. Stixrud (root@nebula.com)
Mon, 9 Sep 1996 00:43:26 -0700 (PDT)
Has anyone thought of a way to possibly put a limit on the amount of
resources to alow anyone process. For example the following code is a
common fork bomb used by people to cause systems to crash. When ran on
this system it crashs the kernel within seconds and even after its killed
I have waited an hour, and the harddrive was still spinning :). There has
to be a way to prevent something like this from causeing such a problem.
main()
{ int *root; while(1) { root=(int *)malloc(10000);
fork(); } }
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