Re: The memory occupied by bash has been increasing due to the fork bomb

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/10/23 4:28 AM, wang yuhang via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again 
SHell wrote:

> Second, When bash fork is a child process, it always creates a memory to 
> manage the job, even if the maximum number set by the ulimit command is reached
> ```

If the maximum number of child processes is exceeded, fork(2) fails, and
this code is not executed.


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