On Thursday 19 October 2006 13:09, Alex Esplin wrote: > So when the child process finishes with whatever command the user > entered does it then have a mechanism for killing itself off to avoid > a slower version of a fork bomb?
There is no risk in a fork() bomb if it is not called in a loop. When a shell executes it only calls fork() once. The child process simply exit()s when it is done. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
