Re: forkbombing Linux distributions

2005-03-20 Thread William Beebe
Thanks. That's what I thought. Sorry for the annoyance. On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:22:21 -0500, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 10:06:57PM -0500, William Beebe wrote: > > > Is this really a kernel issue? Or is there a better way in userland to

forkbombing Linux distributions

2005-03-20 Thread William Beebe
The following quote is from the article "Linux Kernel Security, Again" (http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/308): "Don't get me wrong. Linux doesn't suck. But I do believe that the Linux kernel team (and some of the Linux distributions that are still vulnerable to fork bombing) need to take pr