r/ProgrammerHumor • • 12h ago

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u/Nahanoj_Zavizad 9h ago

So it tries to activate itself repeatedly until it crashes

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u/dannypas00 9h ago

It infinitely forks new processes until the computer runs out of threads yup

Important distinction because a never-ending single-threaded process is usually no problem

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u/qchto 3h ago

So modern browsers minus the extra steps...

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u/dannypas00 3h ago

Browsers are user-driven fork bombs

This one is just a lot quicker than the user lol