> 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.
Sometimes I'm dumb.. But I did read the code.. I never considered what it
would do when fork failed. :(
I *did* run it as a normal user first.. But with a low process count..
> 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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