Subject: Re: Fork bomb protection patch
To: Lord Isildur <mrfusion@uranium.vaxpower.org>
From: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/07/2002 11:17:18 
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 06:49:32PM -0500, Lord Isildur wrote:
> exactly. stop 'em first so they cant keep forking, and then pick them off 
> at your leisure. 

Pardon me - isn't that what the sleep part of this change does for you?

Also, pkill(8) doesn't need all the process slots of the "ps|grep|xargs kill"
pattern.

--
Dan.