in reply to run away ?

Why are you afraid of an infinite loop? You can always Control-c or close the window or whatever - inifinite loops are harmless. A fork bomb on the other hand is less fun (though you should try one once for the experience).

Good Day,
    Dean

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Re^2: run away ?
by TomDLux (Vicar) on Nov 07, 2010 at 04:16 UTC

    When I was at Dalhousie ( 89-92 ), every year you can tell when the 3rd-year students have reached the fork-join assignment, as runaway processes hogged the undergrad shared machine. Nowadays, of course, it's people on their home machines, disrupting their torrent download and music server. But rebooting is quick.

    As Occam said: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.

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Re^2: run away ?
by toniax (Scribe) on Nov 06, 2010 at 21:17 UTC
    I guess a loop could be a good thing . fork bombs could be fun also. I will try that next time I want to reboot my computer .
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