Forkbomb??

[Simon Santoro]

Michael Anckaert wrote:
> Hello all,
> I just read an article on SecurityFocus about how forkbombs can still
> affect modern day distributions.
> The article states Debian isn't affected by the forkbomb and since
> Ubuntu is Debian based, I'm not worried a bit :-).

I don't think this is really a bug. If you use ubuntu as a desktop 
system, you should be able to use all the resources available to work 
with your computer.
If you are using Ubuntu as a server and let users remotely log in and 
execute commands, then, I presume, you are a good enough admin to know 
how to ulimit the resources any given user has.
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