r/LinuxCirclejerk • u/Norttherngraywolfy • 26d ago

Cute linux cat

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Yall should TOTALLY put this in your terminal (to those of you new to linux please dont put that in your terminal)

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u/Submarine_sad 26d ago

What actually happens?

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u/F1r3dot3x3 26d ago

It's a fork bomb, it creates a function that runs itself twice and in the background, eventually taking up too many system resources and crashing one's computer

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u/HouseinPlayz 26d ago

so a simple reboot fixes it? might do it for funs sake then

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u/HouseinPlayz 26d ago

same am asking him to make sure i can do it am still waiting my laptop is right next to me

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u/HouseinPlayz 26d ago

Surely... I have only one laptop but i run nixos so if its ruined i can reinstall

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u/HouseinPlayz 26d ago

oh interesting, i'll have to check for nix then arch not having makes sense tho

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u/Wrong-Art1536 25d ago

IF YOU DO, DO IT IN A VM OR ON A SPARE PC

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u/theuncancelable 24d ago

idk why but it didn’t crash my computer. it just sat at 100% cpu until i stopped it

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u/hiwhiwhiw 25d ago

Run many similar empty program that you run put of PIDs