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Linux Kernel Security, Again
Jason Miller, 2005-03-16

It's a sad day when an ancient fork bomb attack can still take down most of the latest Linux distributions.

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silly article 2005-03-18
Anonymous
You don't grok ulimit. There are two kinds of limits: hard limits and soft limits. A hard limit cannot be increased by non-root users, while a soft limit can.

If a distribution sets hard limits in a shell startup file like /etc/profile or whatever, then those limits will be applied at login tim...

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