Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:19:02 +0100 From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: top delay value Message-ID: <20070130171902.GA4545@britannica.bec.de> In-Reply-To: <20070130162350.126210@gmx.net> References: <200701301521.l0UFLYgE055509@lurza.secnetix.de> <20070130162350.126210@gmx.net>
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On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:23:50PM +0100, Dr. Markus Waldeck wrote: > > Well, an unprivileged user can achieve the same effect by > > typing "while :; do :; done". There are a thousand ways > > to waste CPU time, and there is no way to prevent a user > > >from doing it. > > It is not the same effect. > > You describe fork bombing. No, this is just the shell equivalent of for (;;) ; in C. Aka a busy loop. Joerg
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