Aaron Rainbolt on Nostr: 1: Will hang, consume lots of CPU power, and slowly consume more and more RAM until ...
1: Will hang, consume lots of CPU power, and slowly consume more and more RAM until you exit out of it or trigger the OOM killer (or crash your system), does not require root
2: Classic fork bomb, will force you to reboot to get out of the insane lag caused by it, you will almost certainly lose unsaved work, does not require root
3: Will render you unable to chmod anything without having to go make your own app to do it, will require C programming know-how to undo, requires root
4: Has a 12.5% chance of destroying your data even if not run as root. If run as root, will destroy your whole OS and potentially permanently brick your firmware.
2: Classic fork bomb, will force you to reboot to get out of the insane lag caused by it, you will almost certainly lose unsaved work, does not require root
3: Will render you unable to chmod anything without having to go make your own app to do it, will require C programming know-how to undo, requires root
4: Has a 12.5% chance of destroying your data even if not run as root. If run as root, will destroy your whole OS and potentially permanently brick your firmware.