Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:38:51 +0100 From: Michal Garbowski <mgarbowski@poczta.fm> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fork bomb immune to limits for user. Message-ID: <47E7F53B.7060607@poczta.fm>
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Hello, Did You start start program via screen -m -d -s ~/kaboom ? This is important here. And I want ask You, how you can stop screen -m -d -s ~/kaboom via ctrl+c ? It's impossible with that bomb. (number of PIDs is going to infinity, you can't find that one 'root pid', which will kill all children). Regards... Bill Moran wrote: Michal Garbowski [1]<mgarbowski@poczta.fm> wrote: Hello, I've the question, to the bug report: [2]http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=121949 . Is there any limit, (which I didn't wrote in PR), which can stop gives memory for user (not root) in fBSD ? Can't help you much here because I can't reproduce the problem. I compiled your program and ran it and I was still able to use the system just fine as it was scrolling numbers past. I was also able to CTRL-C the program from the terminal and it stopped without any problems. Nor did I see any unusual memory usage. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Asy i Cieniasy pilkarskiej ekstraklasy kliknij >> [3]http://link.interia.pl/f1d27 References 1. mailto:mgarbowski@poczta.fm 2. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=121949 3. http://link.interia.pl/f1d27
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