> Once this has happened, all forks fail forevermore. Existing processes
> continue running, very slowly, but as I can't run /bin/su or
> /sbin/shutdown this is not very useful :( also, something is sitting in
`exec /bin/su' will cause bash to not fork before running su.
Of course, if you screw up typing your password, you're in trouble :-)
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