Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > I do not know what a "fork bomb" is and still do not know how to > "limit the number of processes and protect against a fork bomb".
Take a look at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_bomb You can protect against it by limiting the number of processes available to a user. Take a look at the bash man page and search for ulimit. If you want a little more detail, it is basically a kernel system call. See 'man setrlimit'. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
