Re: Fork Bomb and why it doesn't happen on BSDs

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Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 00:30:43 -0800
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David Curry wrote:

Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
For those interested, these are ulimits on stock OpenBSD (user and root, soft and hard).

For those interested: The defaults can be changed in /etc/security/limits.conf to customize as you see fit.

References:
- Fork Bomb and why it doesn't happen on BSDs
  - From: Ow Mun Heng
- Re: Fork Bomb and why it doesn't happen on BSDs
  - From: William Hooper
- Re: Fork Bomb and why it doesn't happen on BSDs
  - From: Aleksandar Milivojevic
- Re: Fork Bomb and why it doesn't happen on BSDs
  - From: David Curry