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There are ways to protect against a fork bomb from an unprivileged user though, you can set per-user limits for number of process or memory use. If the OS didn'
by simias 9y ago
There are ways to protect against a fork bomb from an unprivileged user though, you can set per-user limits for number of process or memory use. If the OS didn't provide these mechanisms then yes I'd consider it a security issue.
- eridius 9y agoTechnically you can protect against kill(-1) as well by ptracing the process and catching that call.