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- From: kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron)
- Subject: Re: forking and forking and forking...
- References: <RDORICH.92Sep14204413@jade.tufts.edu>
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.83813.2560@ms.uky.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 12:38:13 GMT
- Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
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- rdorich@jade.tufts.edu (Rob) writes:
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- > for(;;) fork();
-
- >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?
-
- Send them all STOP signals, then once they're all stopped send them
- KILL signals.
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