fork bomb การใช้

• This would have the same effect as a fork bomb and crash the computer several times.
• Intentionally leaking resources can be used in a denial-of-service attack, such as a fork bomb, and thus resource leaks present a security bug.
• In Unix-like operating systems, fork bombs are generally written to use the fork system call . a fork bomb generally will not saturate such a system's memory.
• In Unix-like operating systems, fork bombs are generally written to use the fork system call . a fork bomb generally will not saturate such a system's memory.
• Microsoft Windows operating systems do not have an equivalent functionality to the Unix fork system call; a fork bomb on such an operating system must therefore create a new process instead of forking from an existing one.
• Starvation may be caused by errors in a scheduling or mutual exclusion algorithm, but can also be caused by resource leaks, and can be intentionally caused via a denial-of-service attack such as a fork bomb.
• I figure, combined with suitable limits . conf settings, this would be a good way to avoid bringing my system down with an accidental resource leak or fork bomb, without creating problems for production software from a source package ( where I'd have to sudo make install anyway ).