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Date:      Tue, 15 Sep 1998 15:36:27 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com>
To:        Jay Tribick <netadmin@fastnet.co.uk>
Cc:        "Jason J. Horton" <jason@intercom.com>, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: grep ohdear /dev/zero in a tight loop freezes FreeBSD && OpenBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.02.9809151534100.16842-100000@echonyc.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980915154027.947B-100000@bofh.fast.net.uk>

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On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Jay Tribick wrote:

> The resource limits are fine for protecting against things
> like fork() rabbits etc. but for some reason the above
> overrides them.

I just get "grep: memory exhausted" and my system is fine.

This is with 3.0-current as of a few days ago.


 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems." 


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