Bug #128

exclude the possibility of a fork-bomb

Added by Михаил Гагауз almost 15 years ago. Updated almost 14 years ago.

Status:New Start:02/15/2010
Priority:High Due date:
Assignee:Alexey Samoukin % Done:

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Description

perhaps you know that http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork-bomb
simple solution is use ulimit -u N, see

ulimit -a

or set ulimit options in /etc/rc.conf
# grep '^rc_ulimit' /etc/rc.conf 
rc_ulimit="-u 300"

Rarely have a user will be more than 300 processes

History

Updated by Dmitry Osintsev almost 15 years ago

Михаил Гагауз wrote:

perhaps you know that http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork-bomb
simple solution is use ulimit -u N, see
[...]
or set ulimit options in /etc/rc.conf
[...]
Rarely have a user will be more than 300 processes

But I do!

Updated by Alexander Tratsevskiy almost 14 years ago

  • Assignee set to Alexey Samoukin

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