Excellent discovery! I think you should call it a "fork bomb"!
;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_bomb Niko Lilja wrote: > Well, as has been said when you realize the truth that there is no > spoon, but instead there'll be a > bunch of forks instead, at least in linux on bash shell, tested ubuntu > and RHEL this far. > > By throwing a nice piece of line code as a command in bash shell (normal > user) you can pretty much > crash the whole server cause denial of service by giving a command in bash: > > :() { :&:; } ;: > > > Almost as the ascii would be smiling.. > > - N > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
