artswrapper defanged

Simon Hausmann hausmann at kde.org
Fri Jul 19 09:49:49 BST 2002


On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 09:22:47AM +0200, Stefan Westerfeld wrote:
> Note that I think this is overreacting. You can bring down almost any system
> with a
> 
>    for(;;) { malloc(4096); fork(); }
> 
> program. 

This isn't entirely correct, I believe. A system administrator can
prevent users from bringing down a system using such code by forcing
resource limits on users (see ulimit in bash(1)) .

Simon




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