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Re: Odd behaviour on Bash 2.04 and 2.05


From: Paul Jarc
Subject: Re: Odd behaviour on Bash 2.04 and 2.05
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 16:06:53 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7

"Christian Bodmer" <cbodmer@smile.ch> wrote:
> :(){ :|:&};:

This is a fork bomb.  You can protect against it by setting resouce
limits on the number of processes, e.g.: ulimit -u 100.

> Is this problem specific to Suse? Is it a possible bug?

No, and no.


paul



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