From 224d867b5068c540417c927604c347ec9f41e9d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Philipp Timme <jan.philipp@timme.it>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 23:43:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [TASK] Initial commit

---
 .gitignore   |  1 +
 zombiebomb.c | 68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 69 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .gitignore
 create mode 100644 zombiebomb.c

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..50eb0ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+zombiebomb
diff --git a/zombiebomb.c b/zombiebomb.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..49b9051
--- /dev/null
+++ b/zombiebomb.c
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+#define _GNU_SOURCE
+#include <sched.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+int childMain(void* args) {
+    return 0;
+}
+
+void spawnZombies(int number) {
+    int numForks = 0;
+    int neverStop;
+    int forkResult;
+
+    if(number > 0) {
+        printf("I will try to spawn %d zombies.\n", number);
+        neverStop = 0;
+    } else if(number == 0) {
+        printf("I will spawn as many zombies as possible.\n");
+        neverStop = 1;
+    } else {
+        printf("I have no idea what to do, doing nothing instead!");
+        return;
+    }
+
+    while(neverStop == 1 || numForks < number) {
+        //forkResult = clone(childMain, (void*) NULL, 0, (void*) NULL, (pid_t*) NULL, (struct user_desc*) NULL, (pid_t*) NULL);
+        forkResult = fork();
+
+        switch(forkResult) {
+            case -1:
+                // Forking did not work
+                break;
+            case 0:
+                // Child process at work, let's end this.
+                exit(0);
+                break;
+            default:
+                // Parent shall continue forking ...
+                numForks++;
+                break;
+        }
+
+    }
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
+    int targetNumber;
+    if(argc == 2) {
+        targetNumber = atoi(argv[1]);
+    } else {
+        printf("Usage: %s number, pass 0 to spawn as many zombies as possible\n", argv[0]);
+	return 1;
+    }
+
+    spawnZombies(targetNumber);    
+
+    printf("All zombies have been spawned. Use CTRL+C to exit.\n");
+
+    // Wait
+    while(1) {
+        sleep(60);
+    }
+
+    // That's it. Let somebody else clean up this mess.
+    return 0;
+}