[ On Friday, December 6, 2002 at 18:39:48 (-0500), Lord Isildur wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Fork bomb protection patch
>
> yes, and killing a fork bomb with even only one slot in the process table is 
> very simple. your last command to the shell is to exec top ;) 

Hey!  That's cheating!  (but yes, 'top' does make the cleanup quite a
bit easier -- the one time I did it that way though while testing a
fork-bomb I wished I could give top a command to exec -- i.e. a shell :-)

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