Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 01:12:35 +0100 (MET)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
To: John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>
cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: evading ulimits
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>I've set up some stuff on my box where /etc/security/limits.conf
>contains the following:
>
>@users          soft    nproc           3072
>@users          hard    nproc           4096
>
>I'm in group users, and a simple fork bomb is easily quashed by this:
>
>bluefox@icebox:~$ :(){ :|:; };:
>bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
>Terminated
>
>Oddly enough, trying this again and again yields the same results; but,
>I can kill the box (eventually; about 1 minute in I managed to `/exec
>killall -9 bash` from x-chat, since I couldn't get a new shell open)
>with the below:

Note that trying to kill all shells is a race between killing them all first
and them spawning new ones everytime. To stop fork bombs, use killall -STOP
first, then kill them.


	-`J'
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