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From: peter@aucs.uucp (Peter Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How do you handle while(1) fork(); ?
Message-ID: <1990Jul11.115612.2155@aucs.uucp>
Date: 11 Jul 90 11:56:12 GMT
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Organization: Acadia University - School of Computer Science
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ARaman@massey.ac.nz (A.V. Raman) writes:

>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();

>Any help (by email) would be appreciated.

I think a summary of responses to this question would be appreciated.
We've had students do this on many occasions on our Sun. It's a pretty
quick way to crash the system and I for one would like to know if there
are any feasible solutions.

-- 
Peter Steele, Microcomputer Applications Analyst
Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada B0P1X0 (902)542-2201x121
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