Ye old UNIX philosophy was: "Security is the responsibility of the
user".
It's a bit like travel on a motorway. Malicious individuals can toss
rocks off overpasses or embankments which may bomb random vehicles
who are not looking out for the event. Some Linux powered vehicles
hardly ever get hit.
How or does one secure the problem?
If the answer is simple or won't degrade performance, usability and
innovation or if someone like you does all the research and comes up
with a free add on rock deflector, well then yes, otherwise I'll
stick to a chroot jail vehicle for motorway travel and take my
chances, knowing I don't keep any valuables in the jail.
Stomfi

Carsten Agger wrote:
> I just read about jaromil's work of art dating some years back,
> aka this forkbomb:
>
>
> :(){ :|:& };:
>
> I just tried it on a terminal on my Xubuntu box, and it killed it!
> I had to turn off the power to reboot the machine ...
>
> Neat! Just one thing, tho:
> How come Linux/other Unix systems aren't secured against this
> sort of thing? I believe FreeBSD imposes some restrictions on user
> ressource levels which would limit the impact of this sort of attacks -
> shouldn't the Linux kernel be doing something similar?
>
> regards
> Carsten
>
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