Fork bombing Attack

[Anand Jahagirdar]

Dear Sir,
            I just want to know whether fork bombing attack still
exist on the machine having Distribution as Fedora Core 6 and Linux
Kernel 2.6.x.?

          additional Info :  I have set ulimit as 8000 and loged in
as Guest User on machine having Distribution as Fedora Core 6 and
Linux kernel 2.6.18. simple fork bombing program while(1) fork();
killed the box and machine needed reboot. will any body please tell me
why fork bombing attack killed the box even after setting ulimit as
8000?

Regards
Anand
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