Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:40:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/13202: Easy for user to crash system Message-ID: <199909212340.QAA38653@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/13202; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: slawson@alphamicro.com Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/13202: Easy for user to crash system Date: 22 Sep 1999 01:36:42 +0200 slawson@alphamicro.com writes: > Create a file called "looptest", which contains: > ls -l > ./looptest This is a fork bomb (linear, not quadratic, but still a fork bomb). Use resource limits to prevent it from eating up all system resources (see login.conf(5)). And please use a more recent version than 2.2.8. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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