Fork Bomb
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- security
Is a resource attack that overloads a computers resources by spawning an exponential number of processes in a short amount of time through recursive forking.
The general structure of a fork bomb involves defining a process that spawns itself at least twice and doesn't have any way to terminate. It'll keep doubling up until you run out of system resources.
Examples
while (1) fork();Code Snippet 1:
A C fork-bomb.
fork() { fork|fork & }
forkCode Snippet 2:
A shell script fork bomb.