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

karish at mindcrf.UUCP karish at mindcrf.UUCP
Thu Jul 19 03:59:58 AEST 1990


In article <21028:Jul1807:45:0590 at kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
>In article <price.648165820 at chakra> price at chakra.unl.edu (Chad Price) writes:
>> What you need to do is renice the processes down and then kill them
>> all.
>
>Your solutions are based on very slow shell scripts, so sufficiently
>clever malicious processes can dodge them.

If you're dealing with a malicious process, go ahead and reboot the
machine.  Then hang the perpetrator by his/her toes in your users'
terminal room, as an example.

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