Unilateral toltarian rule of the system ulimits... Set the max for the system and the user can set it higher than that... This will just make the forkbomb seg fault when it's hit the limit...
Regards,
Jeremy
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:56:37PM -0800, Tom wrote:
> How does one prevent a non-root user from locking up the system with:
>
> perl -e "while(1){fork}"
>
> System seems to become utterly unresponsive. (It's a loaded question, I
> know.) Please no answers like: "don't do that" or "working by design".
>
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