Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nih-csl!lhc!ncifcrf!haven!aplcen!unmvax!pprg.unm.edu!topgun!mustang!nntp-server.caltech.edu!gwoho
From: gwoho@nntp-server.caltech.edu (g liu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: killing a process gone bad.
Message-ID: <1990Oct25.185822.11838@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 25 Oct 90 18:58:22 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Lines: 16

supose someone ran the following program:
main()
{
int i;
for (i=0; i<32; i++)
signal(i,(char *)1);
while (fork()!=-1)
;
}

then ran it. how would i kill it? i could kill one of them, but
then the others multiply until the limit is reached. then one fails,
terminates, and a new one appears, etc. so i have 1000 processes
with constantly changing pids that have too be stopped simultaneously.
any ideas for stopping it?
gwoho.