Re: The dumb things we do to ourselves.

[Jon Dowland <jon-dowland@ncl.ac.uk>]

Steve Lamb wrote:

> Bah, and to think I do that from time to time on purpose just to see how
> far I can fork before the machine hangs. Last time was playing with 
> Python's
> threading. Decided to have a thread recursively start itself as child
> threads. Got up to over 1000 before the machine was not responsive. :D

The fun is stopping a fork bomb, not starting one :-)