A Single Line of Code in Linux Can Crash the System Instantly, and 90% of People Don’t Know
The classic Bash fork bomb command, which causes the system to crash by exhausting system resources: .(){ .|.&};. The way this command works is by recursively creating new processes to exhaust system resources: .() defines a function named . The function content .|.& means: call itself (.) to create a child process through a pipe … Read more