Down that hole
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Just tested and confirm it doesnβt work on Fedora 38. When you run it, you get an error saying:
bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
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It still does the loop, but doesnβt slow down the system or anything, and you can easily close the terminal window.
As I said before, systemd imposes cgroup limits per user so fork bombs no longer work.