Yay! :)

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By: asdf
2009-02-19 22:14:57
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What Others Think

Bad command.
Sindacious · 907 weeks and 2 days ago
Sad that people are still posting obvious fork bombs.
ozymandias · 907 weeks and 2 days ago
Good that any decent admin is immune to this.
ozymandias · 907 weeks and 2 days ago
Yeah, feel bad for anyone that uses this without knowing what it does.
Sindacious · 907 weeks and 2 days ago
can you contain a fork bomb from bash once you start it?
afithian · 907 weeks and 2 days ago
On Solaris you can use pkill. pkill -STOP -x processWithBombName pkill -KILL -x processWithBombName The -x specifies an exact command line match; otherwise it matches a regex against the full process argument string.
jsiren · 907 weeks and 2 days ago
How do these go in a virtual machine?
Buzzcp · 900 weeks ago
on linux: pkill -9 -u user maybe this could work too pkill -9 -f bash
ioggstream · 888 weeks and 5 days ago
I really hate this command!!!
leavittx · 883 weeks and 6 days ago
Such an evil command, that can just look like a bunch of smilies to those not familier with *nix, it looks just so innocent.
Chartreuse · 844 weeks ago

What do you think?

Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?

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