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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How do you handle while(1) fork(); ?
Message-ID: <92N42M7@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 13 Jul 90 18:30:17 GMT
References: <841@massey.ac.nz> <671@mtune.ATT.COM> <1655@yenta.alb.nm.us>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <1655@yenta.alb.nm.us> dt@yenta.alb.nm.us (David B. Thomas) writes:
> preventing the administrator's shell from forking 'su'.  And you can't
> 'exec' su, since then su would still fail to fork 'kill', and then you're
> logged out!

exec su -c 'exec kill -9 -1'

So the user just has to put something in their .cshrc to force the shell
to exit if they can't fork.

	set a=`echo hi`
	if (a != hi) exit
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
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