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A fork bomb will also reproduce a program until you run out of memory, and actually stand a better chance of crashing the system if that was your goal.
by smegel 14y ago
A fork bomb will also reproduce a program until you run out of memory, and actually stand a better chance of crashing the system if that was your goal.
- serf 14y agoDid you even read what it does, or are you just spouting out other arbitrary ways to crash systems? There are a host of ways to run out of memory and crash a system. Why not list every single example, if that's your intention, because the fact that it runs a machine out of memory is about the only thing it has in common with a fork bomb. In fact, a fork bomb doesn't even imply the system runs out of memory, but only that the system runs out of a finite resource.
- chris_wot 14y agoThat wasn't his goal. He was teaching himself assembly on x86 Linux and this was more interesting to him than adding two numbers together...
- ZephyrP 14y agoCopy on write!