fork bomb attack

[Alan Cox]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 07:04:07PM +0000, Carlos Rodrigues wrote:
> The BSDs didn't seem vulnerable to this issue, and I don't see people 
> going around in circles screaming about it. So, they seem to have chosen 
> some "one size fits almost all" limits.

I disagree. I can crash the BSD's effortlessly with a slight variant of it.
Its a matter of what the attack was tuned to zap