I think Solaris has a nice feature where the last few entries
	in the process table cannot be any uid other than 0. (I may be
	wrong about that, but its definitely a nice concept).

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On Fri, 5 Apr 1996, Tom I Helbekkmo wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, der Mouse wrote:
>
> | >> Two easy ways to crash a NetBSD system - is it only my system or...?
> | >> 1. main(void) { while(1) fork(); }
> |
> | (heh, what UNIX-alike won't?)
>
> Lots of them have trouble dealing with this one, sure -- but that
> doesn't make it right.  Per user and total system limits (with an
> extra allowance for root on console) should enforce a situation where,
> even if the system administrator has been too "nice" and allowed users
> too wide a berth, the system should at the worst get really sluggish.
> It can teeter on the brink of catatonia for all I care, as long as
> root can log in on the console and eventually get the system back
> under control.
>
> -tih
> --
> Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
> tih@Hamartun.Priv.NO
>