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- From: rdorich@jade.tufts.edu (Rob)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: forking and forking and forking...
- Message-ID: <RDORICH.92Sep14204413@jade.tufts.edu>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 00:54:32 GMT
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- This might not be the right place to post this, but I'll give it a
- try. What can be done when some one executes the following one-liner?
- for(;;) fork();
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- After a few processes have been started, the user blows his processes
- quota, and nothing else can be done. Actually, kill works, but a new
- process is immediately put up. Is there any other solution other than
- shutting the whole system down?
-
- Thanx,
-
- Rob
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