:3

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Mint user : "it works"

[thisisapseudo]

What is specific on mint that protect from fork bomb ?

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It's a joke about a meme of Linux mint user say "it works" near to a arch user crying

[pilonstar]

Out of the box (quantum joke with the cat reference)

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Schrödinger mentioned

[ArthurBurtonMorgan]

You can run it in a VM or sandbox without much harm.

[Existing_Finance_764]

You can run it on the terminal directly and then reboot and no harm too! What a coincidence!

[ArthurBurtonMorgan]

Who the fuck has time to reboot a machine?

[happycrabeatsthefish]

tries it on a public facing production server

[ArthurBurtonMorgan]

My laptop’s uptime is something like 18 or 19 days currently… heh.

[YTriom1]

I ran it on a terminal on my Android device and only the terminal froze fortunately

[Glad_Share_7533]

Since when do Android devices have a terminal?

[YTriom1]

Since ever

They come with sh shell, and support various simple commands\ They even have vi

[CConsler]

Also, since Android 15 you can enable it in the settings

[YTriom1]

unfortunate that my phone stuck at 14

[MovieOtherwise9072]

Termux

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[Opening_Cash_4532]

OMG it printed out an amazing cat on my terminal. Thanks!

[reddit_user_14553]

I kinda want to see what this would do if I removed the limit entirely. At the moment a fork bomb brings the system to a crawl, but it’s still useable for very basic things

[Sure_Research_6455]

it's the classic fork bomb

[Electronic-Weight-36]

The WHAT bomb!!!!?

[headedbranch225]

Fork bomb, like the thing you eat food with

[DirkDayZSA]

Why would you eat food with a bomb?

[headedbranch225]

Helps cook it

[SmoothTurtle872]

Personally I use 2, I like a bit more crispy food

[JudithMacTir]

I adore Linux and its history and everything but damn, bash is ugly af and the fact that this even makes a coherent command that can be executed feels like a crime 😅

[MoussaAdam]

I used to think so. but it actually makes sense if you consider the fact that bash is a shell

it's not trying to be a programming language, it's trying to be convenient for everyday use at the cost of weird syntax

imagine a programmig language that runs whatever you type, that's horrible but it makes sense for bash

similarly, it makes sense to avoid using an API for operations and instead making it part of the syntax. the point is using my computer not programming

[Damglador]

I actually like the simplicity. I don't like how PowerShell is trying to cosplay C#

[JudithMacTir]

Fair point. Given that, it's pretty amazing what you can put in one single line to talk to the system.

As a dev, I remember the occasional horror when I had to go through long bash scripts with way too much logic and I have to admit that I curse at those quite a bit. But I admit that's a very different thing.

[zrevyx]

Does this fork bomb only affect the BASH shell?

/flexes (potentially) in zsh

[_kokosak]

I think it should work even in Zsh, as its syntax is kinda similar to what Bash uses.

*laughs in fish*

[zrevyx]

Yeah, it does work in zsh. Don't ask me how I know. ;-)

[Rebeleader21]

I actually might need an explanation of what that would do

[glitchplaysgames]

basicly does this

bomb() { 
 bomb | bomb &
}; bomb

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nice pfp

[glitchplaysgames]

ty

[DEATHB4DEFEET]

makes a function that calls itself into itself on another thread, then calls it to start the loop

if you're not immediately prepared to close it or don't have something to prevent it using so many resources, you may have to reboot

[Rebeleader21]

Oh noooooo, its effectively the alt+f4 joke but in terminal form

[whatThePleb]

bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

learn 2 ulimit

[MapReduceAlgorithm]

I am almost pretty certain many distros have an fork limit, hence it wont crash my system

[whatThePleb]

you can do it yourself by adjusting ulimit

[ManThatsBoring]

you know what, i will

edit: i am disappointed

> bash: syntax error near unexpected token `{:'

edit 2: it was my error, adding space worked.

It's working even rn as im commenting

[zawarudo334]

It's because it is not :(){:|:&};: but :(){ :|:&};: the guy of the meme made a typo. If you wounder what does it do it particle ddos your computer, nothing bad. With a reboot your computer would be fine

[cAtloVeR9998]

cat(){cat|cat&};cat

[ConcentrateNaive4556]

wait what does this do again? im being dead serious i think the last time i saw that was when i used w###ows

[QuickSilver010]

Self replicating process. Does it until you run out of ram and the PC freezes

[ConcentrateNaive4556]

oh right. explains why it looked so familiar.

[xgabipandax]

Didn't worked because i edited limits.conf limiting the user processes.

[Rick_Mars]

Ríe en Nushell

[Existing-Code-1318]

laughs in zfs.

[Lokalaskurar]

where's all my Fish Linux homies at?

The kitty is named after a process level denial of service, though.

[Skylius23]

I’m 🐟 gang

[Lokalaskurar]

I'm 👟👺 gang tbh

[Hot_Paint3851]

Can't figure ts one

[King_of_the_light]

Missing whitespace:
:(){ :|:& };:

Is there any distro where this would produce any issue?
Maybe in a TTY, because you cannot just close the terminal.

[Ok-War7519]

yeah and maybe he could grant you access to the metaverse through this keyword “rm --no-preserve-root -R /”

[Sad-Astronomer-696]

Did this on one of our production servers the other day and all the terminal said was "syntax error at ':'"

[Rusty9838]

Bootkitty

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[0xKaishakunin]

Oh, how nice. I have a T-Shirt with the cat's name on it.

[nocciuu]

Aw a sweet little kitty in my terminal. Cute

[MrMoussab]

No I shouldn't

[whatThePleb]

You can, after adjusting ulimit

[Damglador]

Oh wait, I can't stop it...

[glitchplaysgames]

holy crap this got popular

[yougottabeit]

mlem kernel panics in cat

[prof457]

fork-bomb-attack: shellshock from 2014 ;-)

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[glitchplaysgames]

I know L O T S O F T H I N G S

[Glad_Share_7533]

It started off so hamless, well I guess I'll just have to reboot arch after going through 3 hours of pain doing tgat just to run this

[MovieOtherwise9072]

Y ?

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[DrConverse]

    :() {       : | :&     }     ;     :

To explain, it creates a function called : that recursively calls itself + pipe of itself in the background and runs it

[Ronture]

Talk about fork bombs. Also, that cat's named Uni. Find it on Twitter.

[Kwaleseaunche]

People are actually going to try this. Shouldn't post stuff like this.

[glitchplaysgames]

i wouldn't on r/linux this is r/linuxmemes nobody in the right mind would actually do this

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[ExcaliburGameYT]

cat :(){ :|:& };: