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Fighting fork bombs

Posted Mar 31, 2011 11:10 UTC (Thu) by dholland (subscriber, #14680)
In reply to: Fighting fork bombs by alonz
Parent article: Fighting fork bombs

I haven't read the patch and I'm not familiar with kernel code... but this looks like it would catch the most common (non-malicious) forkbombs, which in my experience are usually due to user error.

(and something about not letting "perfect" be the enemy of "good"?)

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