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From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] hello, world
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:32:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111228183223.GD11843@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111228105417.GA456@freaknet.org>

asbesto scripsit:

> So I have to cite here our shell UNIX Forkbomb, coded by
> Jaromil, that will bring on knees almost every misconfigured system:
> 
>  :(){ :|:& };:

Well, that version depends on shell functions, a relatively modern
(in TUHS terms) feature of the shell.  A more classical fork bomb,
which will run on every shell, is to place the following into a file:

	$0 & $0 &

and execute the file.

-- 
John Cowan   cowan at ccil.org    http://ccil.org/~cowan
If a soldier is asked why he kills people who have done him no harm, or a
terrorist why he kills innocent people with his bombs, they can always
reply that war has been declared, and there are no innocent people in an
enemy country in wartime.  The answer is psychotic, but it is the answer
that humanity has given to every act of aggression in history.  --Northrop Frye



  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-28 18:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-25 13:10 Norman Wilson
2011-12-26 21:11 ` Warren Toomey
2011-12-26 21:15   ` Wilko Bulte
2011-12-26 21:20   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-12-26 21:53     ` Armando Stettner
2011-12-26 22:13       ` Michael Davidson
2011-12-26 21:28   ` A. P. Garcia
2011-12-27  1:08     ` A. P. Garcia
2011-12-26 21:28   ` Michael Davidson
2011-12-28  0:13     ` Sven Mascheck
2011-12-28  0:20       ` Wilko Bulte
2011-12-28  7:34       ` Warren Toomey
2011-12-28 10:16     ` Ori Idan
2011-12-27  6:11   ` Adam
2012-01-04  3:37     ` Cyrille Lefevre
     [not found]   ` <Pine.BSI.4.64.1112271711290.603@dave.horsfall.org>
2011-12-27 18:01     ` Tim Newsham
2011-12-28  0:53   ` Corey Lindsly
2011-12-28 10:54     ` asbesto
2011-12-28 18:32       ` John Cowan [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.1.1325037601.24307.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2011-12-28 20:56 ` David Barto

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