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Why do these bash fork bombs work differently and what is the significance of & in it?

August 7, 2022 by Magenaut

I get how a normal fork bomb works, but I don’t really understand why the & at the end of the common bash fork bomb is required and why these scripts behave differently:

What’s the difference between fork() and vfork()?

August 7, 2022 by Magenaut

I would like to understand in detail the difference between fork() and vfork(). I was not able to digest the man page completely.

Does fork() immediately copy the entire process heap in Linux?

August 7, 2022 by Magenaut

A fork() system call clones a child process from the running process. The two processes are identical except for their PID.