From owner-freebsd-security Sun Jul 26 19:43:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA22716 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 19:43:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hillbilly.hayseed.net (root@hillbilly.hayseed.net [204.62.130.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA22705 for ; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 19:43:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from enkhyl@hayseed.net) Received: from hillbilly.hayseed.net (enkhyl@hillbilly.hayseed.net [204.62.130.2]) by hillbilly.hayseed.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA07616; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 19:39:35 -0700 Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 02:39:35 +0000 (Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page) From: Enkhyl To: "Jan B. Koum " cc: Nicholas Charles Brawn , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: preventing fork bombs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Jan B. Koum wrote: > Ohh.. and stop wasting so much space for yer C code: > echo "main(){while(1){fork();}}">foo.c;gcc foo.c;rm foo.c;./a.out > Much more compact, eh? :) Compact, yes. Readable, no. There's something to be said for self-documenting, readable code... :-) -- Christopher Nielsen Scient: The Art and Science of Electronic Business cnielsen@scient.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message