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From: asbesto@freaknet.org (asbesto)
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:54:17 +0100
Subject: [TUHS] hello, world
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Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 04:53:44PM -0800, Corey Lindsly wrote:

> > Yes, a good reminder on the power that programming brings us. A question
> > though: what command would "bring the system down"?
> 

So I have to cite here our shell UNIX Forkbomb, coded by
Jaromil, that will bring on knees almost every misconfigured system:

 :(){ :|:& };:

some references here:

 http://www.runme.org/project/+forkbombsh/
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaromil

I think some limits/ulimits configuration can prevent this but
i'm not so sure about it ;)


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