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Fork Bomb
Fork Bomb
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Thirteen characters of Bash that can crash a Unix system. The fork bomb defines a function : that pipes itself into itself and backgrounds the result, then invokes it — each call spawning two more, doubling forever until the process table fills. A canonical artifact of Unix's elegance and its fragility: the same shell that runs the world's servers will also, given thirteen characters, eat itself alive.
Source: Attributed to Jaromil (Denis Roio), jaromil.dyne.org, 2002.
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