Re: top delay value

On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:23:50PM +0100, Dr. Markus Waldeck wrote:
Well, an unprivileged user can achieve the same effect by
typing "while :; do :; done". There are a thousand ways
to waste CPU time, and there is no way to prevent a user
from doing it.

It is not the same effect.

You describe fork bombing.

No, this is just the shell equivalent of
for (;;) ;
in C. Aka a busy loop.

Joerg
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