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Re: Infinite loop?

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From: Jérémie Roquet <jroquet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zzapper <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Infinite loop?
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 17:49:05 +0100
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2015-12-09 17:28 GMT+01:00 zzapper <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I came across this in a posting somewhere
>
> (DO NOT RUN THIS ON YOUR SYSTEM)
>
> :(){ :|:& };:
>
> It crashed my system , had to reboot. Other than that Don't think it
> actually harms anything. I guess it recursively calls itself until you get
> fork errors

That's actually a quite famous pattern, see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_bomb#Examples_of_fork_bombs

Best regards,

-- 
Jérémie

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- Infinite loop?
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