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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How do you handle while(1) fork(); ?
Message-ID: <8779@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 18 Jul 90 17:43:07 GMT
References: <841@massey.ac.nz> <671@mtune.ATT.COM> <price.648165820@chakra> <21028:Jul1807:45:0590@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <21028:Jul1807:45:0590@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
: In article <price.648165820@chakra> price@chakra.unl.edu (Chad Price) writes:
: > What you need to do is renice the processes down and then kill them
: > all.
: 
: Your solutions are based on very slow shell scripts, so sufficiently
: clever malicious processes can dodge them.

What's going on here is Core Wars in pid-space, almost.  It'd be more like
it if the enemy process could kill you too.  Give them a sporting chance,
and all that...

Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov