From: David Newall <david@davidnewall.com>
To: Ubuntu@bugabundo.net, Ubuntu-reply@bugabundo.net,
ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is it possible to give the user the option to cancel forkbombs?
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:33:08 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47456FFC.5090806@davidnewall.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200711220005.32569.Ubuntu@bugabundo.net>
(``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote:
> I used to see stuff like this happening on my University students test servers. Once they started doing forks inside for(;;), the server would go down.
> Then they replaced the servers by vwmare machines, and now reboots are faster.
>
UNIX (and Linux) already has a feature for use in case of forkbombs,
namely keeping a shell available, at a high priority, from which you
manage a wide range of undesired situations. There isn't, that I know
of, any program which responds to a magic key and does the work, but I
think it can be written without requiring any additional kernel support.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-22 12:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-17 5:51 Is it possible to give the user the option to cancel forkbombs? Martin Olsson
2007-11-16 21:31 ` Alan Cox
2007-11-17 7:04 ` Martin Olsson
2007-11-16 23:46 ` Alan Cox
2007-11-17 6:45 ` Dane Mutters
2007-11-17 7:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-11-17 10:39 ` Alan Cox
2007-11-17 13:36 ` Andi Kleen
2007-11-17 15:28 ` Herbert Xu
2007-11-17 17:42 ` Martin Olsson
2007-11-17 10:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-11-17 15:53 ` Diego Calleja
2007-11-17 17:55 ` Dane Mutters
2007-11-23 7:34 ` Radoslaw Szkodzinski
2007-11-22 0:05 ` (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
2007-11-22 12:03 ` David Newall [this message]
2007-11-16 21:38 ` Diego Calleja
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