Thanks! I understand your point, but a fork server is so simple I don't think there is much that can go wrong there, if it was serving more data I would be worried, but its meant to do a quick and short reply.
Fork Bombs are easier to pull off from the command line. Not so much with DOS. I would say that loading a large webserver for each request would use up more resources than a tiny C program. Thats the whole point of the post.
Writing your own server in C seems a little crazy anymore. Just use a C++ framework like POCO or ASIO. POCO gives you a fast httpserver component with all the tricky stuff figured out.
