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by shanth 1035 days ago
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For anyone wondering, it is a classic: a bash fork-bomb. If there are no restrictions in place, it will recursivly try call itself creating more requests ...

Its only indirectly harmful: Your system might get unresponsive and require a hard boot. But then again you and other users might loose unsaved work.

This is what is known as a fork bomb, correct?
Nice Try.
Nice try