On Wed, 01 Mar 2000, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>Can someone tell me what is a fork bomb?
>
>
>-Siddharth.
>
The detailed explaination is on the jargon file www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon .A
fork bomb is a program that recursively calls the fork function to eatup
resources on the host machine, causing it to slow down and ultimately crash.
An example is
void main()
{
fork();
main();
}
Devdas Bhagat
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