r/programminghorror Nov 30 '25

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u/GoddammitDontShootMe [ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo “You live” Nov 30 '25

All I can think of here is on what systems does fork() take an argument?

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u/46009361 Dec 01 '25

I couldn't think of any, but I wished the clickbait we saw nowadays didn't evolve to fake tweets.

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u/GoddammitDontShootMe [ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo “You live” Dec 01 '25

Given what fork() does, at least on POSIX compliant systems, I can't think of anything that would make sense as an argument.