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Name
Fork() Forkfork &Fork [Hot]
Ship ident
PLAGUE
Type
Fer-de-Lance
Role
An unreasonable amount of damage.

Description
"A classic example of a fork bomb is the Unix shell one : (){ :|:& };:, which can be more easily understood as:
fork() {
fork | fork &
}
fork

In it, a function is defined (fork()) as calling itself (fork), then piping (|) its result to a background job of itself (&)."
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_bomb
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