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SubjectRe: fork() DoS?
The simplest way would be to limit _SC_CHILD_MAX. _POSIX_CHILD_MAX
looks like it is only 6. Another way would be to introduce a scheduler
which forced process/threads owned by the same uid to combat with each
other for a time slice, and each user be given a fair time slice. (A
little more complicated, but probably doable)

mark


On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 11:09:03PM +0100, Erik Tews wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 09:16:00AM -0600, Little, John wrote:
> > 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?
>
> There are some kernel-patches existing which limit the number of allowed
> forks per second. But there is a much shorter way for launching a
> forkbomb:
>
> :(){ :|:&};:
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