Oops

[bellinghman]

I just accidentally wrote a fork bomb.

Thank goodness for the fact the process in question had enough of a bottleneck that it couldn't max-out both cores, so I was able to shut everything else down and log off cleanly.

Comments

[erikvolson.livejournal.com]

Whoops.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

(The process was supposed to find out its own path and name, substitute a different actual filename, and execute that. Unfortunately, I neglected to use the updated name ...)

[vatine]

"Oooops"

[liasbluestone.livejournal.com]

Ooops, indeed...