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At 10:07 PM -0500 8/7/01, Ken Williams wrote:
>No, but lots of them together can.  My favorite bit of malicious Perl
>code, which I've never had the courage to try, is "fork while 1".  =)

Multiple processes I can see bringing the machine down (shouldn't, 
but it's common, and hard to protect from).

>
>Nevertheless, perhaps it's really Aqua or the Finder or Terminal that's
>misbehaving, not Apache or mod_perl.  Several times I've seen

No.  Nothing is responding at all--the machine is devoting everything 
to that one process.  I've tried knocking my Apache timeout down to a 
much smaller value, and I'll see whether that saves me next time. 
But this clearly shouldn't be happening.

>BTW, in your original message you mention "command-escape".  Just want
>to make sure you know that force-quit is actually command-option-escape.

Yes, thanks.
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Kee Hinckley - Somewhere.Com, LLC
http://consulting.somewhere.com/

I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.

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