From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Pietro Gagliardi Subject: Re: [9fans] Google search of the day Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:49:19 -0500 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 532eebfc-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 So I think only in bash. How it works? http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/understanding-bash-fork-bomb/ It does use :(){ :|: &};:, but I have tried :(){:|:};: and it worked. On Feb 13, 2008, at 6:41 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Wed Feb 13 18:32:19 EST 2008, pietro10@mac.com wrote: >> In most /bin/sh variants (I'm not sure about original): >> >> :(){:|:};: >> >> Quick denial of service. >> > > > iirc, there were not functions in the orginal. > > - erik