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From: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How do you handle while(1) fork(); ?
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Date: 14 Jul 90 22:45:14 GMT
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On BSD systems, at least, one way to recover from a "while(1) fork();"
situation is to log in as the offending user and execute my die/suicide
program, which in essence is:

   kill (-1, SIGTERM);	/* give each process a software termination signal */
   sleep (3);		/* and give it 3 seconds to clean up */
   kill (-1, SIGKILL);	/* then kill each process with extreme prejudice */
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com>
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