21 Jun
2009
21 Jun
'09
10:05 p.m.
On Sun, 21.06.09 19:14, Paul Davis (paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com) wrote:
of course, the name of lennart's new feature
doesn't make it entirely
clear whether or not "fork" is equivalent to its "real" linux
implementation: clone. if it were not, then you could create an "RT
thread bomb" instead of a "fork bomb". i only did a quick reading of
his patch and in the context of the patch its not clear whether it
applies to every instance of clone() (i.e. thread or task creation) or
just plain fork().
The distinction between a thread/clone() and a process/fork() bomb
doesn't really matter. What matters is that you can kill() processes
and make the whole issue go away in one step even if that process has
one gazillion threads and wants to create even more.
Lennart
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