4 ms·

so basically a fork-bomb. I think Linux can still buckle under one, nothing that obscene...

• mattnewton 9y ago
  No, the article says this is a regression in how processes close.
• masklinn 9y ago
  A fork bomb exhausts all system resources, this is not that, it doesn't actually use any resources, rather it locks the system out of them by serialising both process termination and UI updates.
  • eecc 9y ago
    Well, a fork bomb doesn't really use anything except it makes the process table management extremely time consuming. Not quite the same, but still conceptually similar