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

2005-05-25 Thread 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 tim

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

2005-05-25 Thread 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 func