28 Dec
2011
28 Dec
'11
11:54 a.m.
Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 04:53:44PM -0800, Corey Lindsly wrote:
So I have to cite here our shell UNIX Forkbomb, coded by
Jaromil, that will bring on knees almost every misconfigured system:
:(){ :|:& };:
some references here:
http://www.runme.org/project/+forkbombsh/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaromil
I think some limits/ulimits configuration can prevent this but
i'm not so sure about it ;)
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Yes, a good
reminder on the power that programming brings us. A question
though: what command would "bring the system down"?