It just takes all your computers CPU and RAM by making endless copies of itself. Best case your PC gets sluggish, worst it crashes. Won’t do any lasting damage. It’s called a “Fork Bomb”
Any modern Linux system where you didn’t explicitly tell it to do otherwise will limit the amount of running processes to a safe number.
So this does nothing anymore. Same as rm -rf / which also simply triggers an error message.
It just takes all your computers CPU and RAM by making endless copies of itself. Best case your PC gets sluggish, worst it crashes. Won’t do any lasting damage. It’s called a “Fork Bomb”
Any modern Linux system where you didn’t explicitly tell it to do otherwise will limit the amount of running processes to a safe number.
So this does nothing anymore. Same as
rm -rf /which also simply triggers an error message.