fork bomb attack

[Ralf Ertzinger]

Hi.

Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:

> If we set strict ulimits by default we'd have people writing articles
> like "Fedora is teh suck, I can't malloc more than xMB in a single
> process" What's fit for one configuration may not be for another.
> One size most definitly does not fit all.

Especially as the article is quite uninformative about the resource
that was exhausted. My FD has a ulimit on the number of processes,
and I did not set that, and it has been this way for some time, I think.

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