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[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:23:50PM +0100, Dr. Markus Waldeck wrote:
> > Well, an unprivileged user can achieve the same effect by
> > typing "while :; do :; done".  There are a thousand ways
> > to waste CPU time, and there is no way to prevent a user
> > >from doing it.
> 
> It is not the same effect.
> 
> You describe fork bombing.

No, this is just the shell equivalent of
	for (;;) ;
in C. Aka a busy loop.

Joerg