in this case, a fork bomb would actually be the tool i'd choose to get 
rid of this program! (to keep it from jumping from pid to pid, hog all 
the pid's!)
isildur

On 5 Dec 2002, Joachim Thiemann wrote:

> On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 21:15, der Mouse wrote:
> > I once pondered how to build an `unkillable' wabbit.  Of course,
> > ultimately, there is no such thing.  But I was trying to invent
> > something that would require a sledgehammer like dropping to ddb to
> > deal with.  I've never actually tried any of the ideas out, but it
> > might be an amusing exercise on a scratch machine.  In particular,
> > there has to be something to deal with the approach of hitting them
> > with SIGSTOP to make them stop forking so you can kill them....
> 
> Does this count?  Back when I was still cutting my teeth on this *nix
> stuff, I wrote a piece of code (under Coherent 386, no less) that would
> fork, then detatch, kill the parent...  ie cycle through the PID's
> reeeeealy fast.  Couldn't be killed by hand, anyways, though a special
> hunt-kill piece of code could probably do it... 
> 
> Joe.
> PS. You back in Mtl yet?
> 
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