From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arisawa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 15:16:32 +0900 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.1 \(1993\)) Subject: [9fans] protection against resource exhaustion Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3b55ebd8-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hello 9fans my mac has a protection below: -bash$ cat foo #!/bin/sh ./foo -bash$ ./foo ./foo: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable -bash$ on the other hand, Plan 9 does not. kernel is protected against such programs, however they are not killed. therefore no new process can be created. does anyone have idea to fix the problem? Kenji Arisawa