On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 17:52 +1300, Jason Greenwood wrote:
The appropriate line here is: boot access=r00t access....=)
I am not talking about anything as complex as rooting the box â just a simple fork bomb run as a normal user. It is not elegant. It is not cleaver. It will not compromise your data. It will cause the box to stop.
Can somebody verify whether an exponential fork bomb (one that forks two or more copies) can multiply faster than a (linear) killall/pkill can kill them?
I have heard this, but haven't verified it experimentally. I suspect it is false, especially on a modern unix.
Cheers, Carl.
