Subject: Re: Fork bomb protection patch (Was: Re: CVS commit: syssrc/sys/kern)
To: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
From: Roland Dowdeswell <elric@imrryr.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/08/2002 19:01:12 
On 1039380661 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch
Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
>

>You are also right that e.g. inetd is in the same boat, tho IIRC
>inetd does some connection throttling (allows only 100 per second?).

Yes, but 100 per second does not bound the number of children, it
is only a bound on the derivative of the number of children.

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    Roland Dowdeswell                      http://www.Imrryr.ORG/~elric/