Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwmcsd1!leah!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!cme-durer!brickman 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 References: <4774@csli.STANFORD.EDU> <30587@clyde.ATT.COM> <8475@ihlpb.ATT.COM> <727@ns.UUCP> <299@babel.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <577@rtg.cme-durer.ARPA> <231@pigs.UUCP> Reply-To: brickman@rtg (Jonathan E. Brickman) Organization: The National Bureau of Standards Lines: 14 ----------------START------------ $HOME/tw & $HOME/tw & ----------------END-------------- where "$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