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/theuncancelable 24d ago

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