Re: The dumb things we do to ourselves.
Jon Dowland wrote:
> 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 :-)
"killall" worked when I did this: fortunately I was only using fork and not
exec.
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