Subject: Re: Fork bomb protection patch
To: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/05/2002 18:31:49
Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org> writes:
> * make process sleep for 0.5s if the system table is full
>   or when the user reaches their process number limit
>   - this is to not hog the system with huge number of CPU-hungry
>     looping processes

Yuck!!!!

Perry