[Gllug] Take a look at my photos on Facebook

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Wed Nov 11 21:39:21 UTC 2009


On 10 Nov 2009, Avi Greenbury spake thusly:
> [0] Yes, applications should be able to fail without taking the OS with
> them. This is still an issue in Windows.

And on Linux unless rlimits *and* process count limits are set, which is
very rare because setting them both so low that malloc()ing fork bombs
can't take the machine down constrains things too much for most real
uses.
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