[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Esben Mose Hansen:
Graeme Dice: It is getting difficult to crash a modern, hardened linux system. E.g, fork-bombs doesn't work anymore. The trick you mention I do not understand. The kernel has no thread or process as such; so I don't understand how you can determine or exceed it's prioty?

Make a blocking I/O thread that will never return control to the Kernel, and that intercepts all interrupts and ignores them. It might not be doable on all unix based systems, but I know that it was under Darwin just two years ago.