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From: brickman@cme-durer.ARPA (Jonathan E. Brickman)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Are these binaries "safe"?
Message-ID: <585@rtg.cme-durer.ARPA>
Date: 15 Aug 88 14:20:02 GMT
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Reply-To: brickman@rtg (Jonathan E. Brickman)
Organization: The National Bureau of Standards
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$HOME/tw &
$HOME/tw &
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where "$HOME/tw" is the name of the csh script.  The result of running this
is the devouring of all available processes, until all process space is
taken up.

>this would have to be run as root and would probably only work ONCE.  the
>reason being that MAXUPC sets the maximum number of processes a user may
>have to be some fixed value.  run away process can't run too far ...

Try this on a Sun server sometime.  Only if you happen to have the
reboot key though!
||Jonathan E. Brickman