* Infinite loop?
@ 2015-12-09 16:28 zzapper
2015-12-09 16:49 ` Jérémie Roquet
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From: zzapper @ 2015-12-09 16:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
Hi
I came across this in a posting somewhere
(DO NOT RUN THIS ON YOUR SYSTEM)
:(){ :|:& };:
It crashed my system , had to reboot. Other than that Don't think it
actually harms anything. I guess it recursively calls itself until you
get fork errors
zzapper
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* Re: Infinite loop?
2015-12-09 16:28 Infinite loop? zzapper
@ 2015-12-09 16:49 ` Jérémie Roquet
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From: Jérémie Roquet @ 2015-12-09 16:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zzapper; +Cc: Zsh Users
2015-12-09 17:28 GMT+01:00 zzapper <david@rayninfo.co.uk>:
> I came across this in a posting somewhere
>
> (DO NOT RUN THIS ON YOUR SYSTEM)
>
> :(){ :|:& };:
>
> It crashed my system , had to reboot. Other than that Don't think it
> actually harms anything. I guess it recursively calls itself until you get
> fork errors
That's actually a quite famous pattern, see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_bomb#Examples_of_fork_bombs
Best regards,
--
Jérémie
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