On Wednesday May 25 2005 13:38, michael wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 22:04 -0500, Sergio Cu�llar Vald�s wrote:
> > and what about this:
> >
> > $ :(){ :| :&};:
> >
> > Try it at your own risk. :P
>
> I've tried to decypher this but failed... can somebody enlighten me plsIt defines a shell function ":" that calls itself and executes it. It's as short a bash (also sh?) forkbomb as you get and it's pretty efficient at cleaning your memory and swap partition to a bare minimum if you don't ulimit it. Killing it was not too difficult the one time I tried it, but as always: don't do this on a production machine. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de
pgp8NmaUjF819.pgp
Description: PGP signature
