AFAIK a fork bomb is not
a bag of explosives filled with kitchen utensils
it is a program designed to replicate or "fork" itself in RAM (program memory) until there is no more RAM.
The usage of the word fork comes from "fork in the road"
Regards, Zane
Carl Cerecke wrote:
Michael JasonSmith wrote:
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 17:52 +1300, Jason Greenwood wrote:
The appropriate line here is: boot access=r00t access....=)
I am not talking about anything as complex as rooting the box â just a simple fork bomb run as a normal user. It is not elegant. It is not cleaver. It will not compromise your data. It will cause the box to stop.
Can somebody verify whether an exponential fork bomb (one that forks two or more copies) can multiply faster than a (linear) killall/pkill can kill them?
I have heard this, but haven't verified it experimentally. I suspect it is false, especially on a modern unix.
Cheers, Carl.
