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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
 


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