5 Oct
2006
5 Oct
'06
7:46 p.m.
But you'd need kernel mode for that; this is a
DoS attack (one of the
first?) launched by a user.
The userland DoS I remember:
main() {
while(1)
fork();
}
And in fact I tried it once on the 11/45 I had access to. Not pretty.
It can be made less disastrous by judicious addition of a wait(); call.
--Milo, wondering how contemporary UNIX will deal with such
pathological behavior....
--
Milo Velimirović
University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601 USA
43 48 48 N 91 13 53 W
--
There's a reason Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson have been awarded
the U.S. National Medal of Technology (1998) and are fellows of the
Computer History Museum Online. Dave Cutler hasn't and isn't.
"You are not expected to understand this."