Hello Tom! On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:56:37PM -0800, Tom wrote:
How does one prevent a non-root user from locking up the system with:
perl -e "while(1){fork}"
System seems to become utterly unresponsive. (It's a loaded question, I
know.) Please no answers like: "don't do that" or "working by design".
You could set a ulimit, see man bash. I didn't have the need to try it myself yet, but I guess it should work. HTH, Flo
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