LOL, I haven't seen one of those for a long time.
I got into plenty of trouble for those in college.

There is protection, at least on Unix we had <limit>
to set the maximum mumber of processes a user could fork.



On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:48:12 +0100
"Carsten Agger" <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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