Why fork bomb did not crash android?

Question

This is the simplest fork bomb

:() { :|: & }; :

I executed it on many linux distros and all of them crashed.

But when I executed this in an android terminal there was no effect even after granting Super user permissions.

Any Explanations why it did not crash the android system?

Ave

It does work in Android 10 and Termux – Jenette

Answer 1

In a word: ulimit. the linux kernel allows a limit on the number of child processes, this can be tweaked using the ulimit() system call or the ulimit shell builtin.

eg:

ulimit -u 5

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