Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> The following script used to crash NetBSD and OpenBSD a few years ago, I
> just tested it on -current, just to check that it was fixed, and it
> seems to turn into a nice denial of service script now. After it ran,
> process table is full, and it seems I'm bound to reboot to fix things.

If you look into kern/kern_fork.c, non-root are not allowed
to fill the proc table completely, but root is.

'Don't run fork bombs as root'.

Jaromir
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