Messages in this thread | | | From | (Linus Torvalds) | Subject | Re: FreeBSD & Linux [./fork 500 totally hangs my machine 2.1.127] | Date | 10 Nov 1998 07:20:24 GMT |
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In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.981109200116.1058A-100000@z.ml.org>, Gregory Maxwell <linker@z.ml.org> wrote: > >I ran it on a 2.0 system with QNX schedular patch. It did 254 in 0 >seconds.. I then tried 10000 and it killed init.. :) > >Damn.. The box had like 150days uptime.
What _is_ it with people who run other peoples C programs as root without looking deeply into what they do? I'm surprised you had an uptime that big ;)
Now, the obvious thing to do was to test it as a normal user: never _ever_ test as root unless you have to.
And if you tested as a normal user first and wondered why it kicked you out to the login prompt, the first reaction should _not_ be "Oh, cool, I wonder what that does if I run it as root" ;)
Linus
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