Subject: Re: Fork bomb protection patch
To: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/04/2002 14:16:52
[ On Wednesday, December 4, 2002 at 10:07:35 (+0100), Jaromir Dolecek wrote: ]
> Subject: Fork bomb protection patch
>
> * make process sleep for 0.5s if the system table is full
> or when the user reaches their process number limit
> - this is to not hog the system with huge number of CPU-hungry
> looping processes
I'm not sure I like this last bit.....
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