Code:
while (1) {
fork();
}
Can I do it yet? =)
That's basically what it does, but how?
He won't know unless he can find the log of me explaining it to him last night ;P
Haha, I didn't think he'd figure that out himself :)
To quote somebody else:
The ':()' defines a fuction ':' with a fuction body of
{
: | : &
}
As you can see this is a recursive call as the fuction ':' is called,
it's output passed via a pipe as input to the fuction ':' and this
whole command is run in the background '&' .
The last ':' in the string (after the ';') calls the fuction and therefore
starts it all of.
(Krazed edit: Disabled smileys.)
