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From: news@ivucsb.UUCP (Todd Day)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Outrageous amount of multiple forks
Summary: how do you prevent...
Message-ID: <382@ivucsb.UUCP>
Date: 12 Nov 88 21:33:45 GMT
References: <22401@cornell.UUCP> <2210005@acf3.NYU.EDU>
Reply-To: news@ivucsb.UUCP (Todd Day)
Organization: The Audio Club at UCSB, Isla Vista, California
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In article <2210005@acf3.NYU.EDU> rosenblg@acf3.NYU.EDU (Gary J. Rosenblum) writes:
_On another note, today I found a student running this wonderful
_little ditty, which he named oddly enough virus.c:
_
_main() { while (1) fork (); }
_
_and he effectively halted a small vax (11/750).

Isn't there something to prevent this sort of system crashing?  It's
all too easy...