bin/55346: /bin/sh eats memory and CPU infinitely

[Doug White]

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Eugene Grosbein wrote:

> Hi!
>
> It seems /bin/sh in 4.8-STABLE has problem with SIGCHLD processing.
> In short, it often fails to process it correctly, zombies float
> around, jobs are not marked as finished in jobtab[] that fills memory
> and takes much CPU to be processed.
>
> Run this one-liner using /bin/sh and see hundreds of zombies:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> while :; do : & done

Considering that with this script you are forkbombing your machine as
root, I think this falls into the "doctor it hurts when I shoot my foot"
category.

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