#forkbomb

[zemmouriaymen]

Meet the most dangerous feline in tech history.

His name? :(){ :|:& };:

Cute, but don’t let him near your terminal. This cat doesn’t purr—he forks.

If you’re on Linux and you type his name in bash…

May your system rest in peace.

Warning: Do NOT try this unless you want to hard crash your machine.

It’s called a fork bomb, and it’ll bring your system to its knees by rapidly creating infinite processes.

[ew2yu]

I’ve been working on a comic idea for a while now called Why?2K! and I finally feel comfortable with the direction I’m taking with it to be able to post about it. So here’s some of the main characters! It’s about a bunch of viruses living on a pre 2000′s computer!

[al-ish]

we should get a pokemon game that takes place in the far future where youhave to pay for pokemon center. And it isn't free

[kmblx-issues]

[dawnleaf37]

[hahajax]

so a classmate, while trying to make a regular fork bomb, made a forking fork bomb

like, it's a fork bomb, but it starts making fork bombs of its own

all while trying to make a normal fork bomb

[purulens-kopet]

Visit Original Link

[ohaithe-re]

Secret Linux Death Number

~$ cat test.c //Secret Linux Death Number long main __attribute__((section(".text"))) = 17936435503883665457L; ~$ gcc test.c ~$ ./a.out

Uh oh...

..as far as I know I'm the first person to stuff this into a single long on 64-bit systems! All the equivalent things I found online took at least 11 bytes.

For those curious, this is an assembly fork bomb. The above C will compile and run fine, and then your computer will become totally unusable (until you restart).

Works on Linux Subsystem on Windows too, crashing Windows.