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Defending against fork bombs

Defending against fork bombs

Posted May 5, 2005 15:20 UTC (Thu) by proski (subscriber, #104)
In reply to: Defending against fork bombs by NAR
Parent article: Defending against fork bombs

And what happens when the fork bomb daemonizes itself (i.e. it's direct ancestor will be the init process)?

I guess that's why "biological" parents need to be tracked.


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