From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Sep 21 16:40: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AE4B14F54 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:40:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id QAA38653; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:40:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:40:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199909212340.QAA38653@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Subject: Re: misc/13202: Easy for user to crash system Reply-To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR misc/13202; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav 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