[krylon]

Wow.

I managed to crash the TCP/IP stack on z/OS during my training with a runaway Perl script that inadvertently had turned into a fork bomb. Luckily, it was just a testing/development system, and SNA kept working, so the only person to notice was the monitoring guy. And that system was IPL'ed on a regular basis (with the next one scheduled one or two days from that incident), so it was no biggie. I was really freaking out, though, until the others assured me that it was not a problem - "This is exactly why we don't let trainees on the production systems", as my supervisor put it.

Since that day, I only use fork() very, very cautiously. :)