How do you handle while(1) fork(); ?

[Scott Fritchie; ACC @ St. Olaf College]

In article <841 at massey.ac.nz> ARaman at massey.ac.nz (A.V. Raman) writes:

   Is there any way to kill all instances of a process that has the
   following piece of code in it without having to bring the system down?

      while (1)
	 fork();

For BSD, if you've got a super-user shell handy, you can send SIGSTOP
signals to all of the offending processes using something along these
lines:

	ps tXX | grep -v PID | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill -STOP

Once the forking (:-) processes have been stopped, they can be
terminated at leisure by hand or using a variation of the above
pipeline.

						-Scott
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