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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Ok but actually what does this do?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

its a lot more readable if you replace the : with any other function name

fork() {
     fork | fork &
};
fork

define a funktion called fork, which calls itself twice (call once, pipe ( "|" ) the result to the same function again which is run in a new thread in the background ( "&" )). Then call the newly defined function. The : is used to make it look more like emoji.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_bomb