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From: ARaman@massey.ac.nz (A.V. Raman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: How do you handle while(1) fork(); ?
Message-ID: <841@massey.ac.nz>
Date: 10 Jul 90 23:14:56 GMT
Reply-To: ARaman@massey.ac.nz (A.V. Raman)
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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Is there any way to kill all instances of a process that has the
following piece of code in it without having to bring the system down?

   while (1)
      fork();

I guess it should be possible to do something like temporarily
reducing the user's process limit to 0 and raising it back up
later; but I'm not sure how to go about it.

Any help (by email) would be appreciated.

Thanks.

- & (Anand)