Definitions for "Fork Bomb"
A disruptive piece of code directed toward a UNIX-based system which replicates, or “forks,” until it eventually “explodes” and devours operating system processes, causing the system to lock up.
a process which creates (forks) as many child processes as possible, attempting to use up all of the virtual memory or PIDs in a system, resulting in a Denial of Service to other users
a UNIX system attack, commonly written in one line of C or shell code, that "explodes" by recursively spawning copies of itself, until it eats all the process table entries and brings the system down