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

Larry Wall lwall at jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV
Thu Jul 19 03:43:07 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.

What's going on here is Core Wars in pid-space, almost.  It'd be more like
it if the enemy process could kill you too.  Give them a sporting chance,
and all that...

Larry Wall
lwall at jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov



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