Thus spake Ellick Chan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
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> If I remember correctly, ulimit has a rather poor manpage.
I'll say. Basically it says see bash.
> It can control
> mem usage/processes, but is enforced by your shell(bash). I was trying to
> use it to control runaway processes such as Netscape, and nasty cookbook
> lockups such as a fork bomb or malloc bomb. I think that if
> a program tries to fork bomb in a clever way, or a malloc bomb, it may be
> able to act faster than the shell can stop it.
I had to use this recently because we had students writing forking lab
assignments which ran away. ulimit did actually control this.
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