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.

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

Doh!

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

That would have been embarrassing...

[jemck.livejournal.com]

I understand each individual word in that post but the meaning of the whole escapes me by about one astronomical unit.

No, don't try to explain, life is too short and anyway my brain will just start dribbling out of my ears.

I'm just entertained by the infinite variation of different people's lives. That's all. :)

killall

[tsr2.livejournal.com]

I wonder if killall could have got them faster than they were forking? Or were you on a different OS?