Re: The dumb things we do to ourselves. (SPOILER)

[Nicos Gollan]

On Wednesday May 25 2005 13:38, michael wrote:
 On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 22:04 -0500, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote:
  and what about this:
 
  $  :(){ :| :};:
 
  Try it at your own risk. :P

 I've tried to decypher this but failed... can somebody enlighten me pls

It 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.

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Re: The dumb things we do to ourselves. (SPOILER)

[Sergio Cuéllar Valdés]

Yes, exactly.



 It 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.
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