fork bomb attack

[Paul Iadonisi]

On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 15:20 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:

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>  or print to a
> remote machine called "localhost" - thats effectively a forkbomb...

  Ewe!  That sounds like an insanely simple exploit.  Anyone want to
confirm this?  If it's that easy, I'd call it bug.

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