Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761482AbXEQHkF (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 03:40:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754394AbXEQHj4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 03:39:56 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.174]:14479 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754052AbXEQHjz (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 03:39:55 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=NAFYhYljSozUE8veFt3kQhG7bNK6V3voLqUXHEzw8r3r4JCyrS75C+BHeKe/jKotjwl9Bh0yhRkti7p7VuraRsyLk6V493zWSaVWuZ1B2glze05QmorE+W+4jcDei7kVyQr3ZV6BRh6JN44QtMkmNJ/bD4W3UNXPstpeGZU9KU0= Message-ID: <698310e10705170039u1270e8c4s71e551861444cb47@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 11:39:54 +0400 From: "Marat Buharov" To: "Anand Jahagirdar" Subject: Re: Fork bombing Attack Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <25ae38200705170025m23fe8ea9s81515ec8d1a0a137@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <25ae38200705170025m23fe8ea9s81515ec8d1a0a137@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1144 Lines: 28 May be because Mars was in Scorpio? On 5/17/07, Anand Jahagirdar wrote: > Dear Sir, > I just want to know whether fork bombing attack still > exist on the machine having Distribution as Fedora Core 6 and Linux > Kernel 2.6.x.? > > additional Info : I have set ulimit as 8000 and loged in > as Guest User on machine having Distribution as Fedora Core 6 and > Linux kernel 2.6.18. simple fork bombing program while(1) fork(); > killed the box and machine needed reboot. will any body please tell me > why fork bombing attack killed the box even after setting ulimit as > 8000? > > Regards > Anand > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/