wabbit /wab'it/ n.
[almost certainly from Elmer Fudd's
immortal line "You wascawwy wabbit!"] 1. A legendary early hack
reported on a System/360 at RPI and elsewhere around 1978; this may
have descended (if only by inspiration) from a hack called RABBITS
reported from 1969 on a Burroughs 5500 at the University of
Washington Computer Center. The program would make two copies of
itself every time it was run, eventually crashing the system.
2. By extension, any hack that includes infinite self-replication
but is not a virus or worm. See fork bomb
rabbit job, see also cookie monster.
[almost certainly from Elmer Fudd's
immortal line "You wascawwy wabbit!"] 1. A legendary early hack
reported on a System/360 at RPI and elsewhere around 1978; this may
have descended (if only by inspiration) from a hack called RABBITS
reported from 1969 on a Burroughs 5500 at the University of
Washington Computer Center. The program would make two copies of
itself every time it was run, eventually crashing the system.
2. By extension, any hack that includes infinite self-replication
but is not a virus or worm. See fork bomb
rabbit job, see also cookie monster.
Related:
- wabbit: /wab'it/ [almost certainly from Elmer Fudd's immortal
line "You wascawwy wabbit!"] n.
1. A legendary early hack reported on a System/360... - cookie monster: [from the children's TV program "Sesame
Street"] n.
Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks reported on... - cookie monster n.
[from the children's TV program
"Sesame Street"] Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks
reported on TOPS-10,
ITS, Multics, and that would lock up either the... - fork bomb n.
[Unix] A particular species of wabbit
that can be written in one line of C (main()
{for(;
)fork();}) or shell ($0 & $0 &) on any Unix... - fork bomb: [UNIX] n. A particular species of {wabbit} that can
be written in one line of C (`main() {for(;
)fork();}') or shell (`$0 & $0 &') on any UNIX system... - rabbit job: [Cambridge] n. A batch job that does little,
if any, real work, but creates one or more copies... - rabbit job n.
[Cambridge] A batch job that does little,
if any, real work, but creates one or more copies... - replicator: n. Any construct that acts to produce copies of
itself;
this could be a living organism, an idea (see {meme})... - back door n.
[common] A hole in the security of a
system deliberately left in place by designers or maintainers.
The motivation for such holes is not always sinister...
From the same category:
- scrozzle /skroz'l/ vt.
Used when a self-modifying code
segment runs incorrectly and corrupts the running program or vital
data.
"The damn compiler scrozzled itself again... - net.god /net god/ n.
Accolade referring to anyone who
satisfies some combination of the following conditions:
has been visible on Usenet for more than 5 years... - die horribly v.
The software equivalent of crash and burn,
and the preferred emphatic form... - knobs pl.n.
Configurable options, even in software and
even those you can't adjust in real time.
Anything you can twiddle is a knob. "Has this PNG... - GNU /gnoo/, not /noo/
1. [acronym: `GNU's Not
Unix!',
see recursive acronym] A Unix-workalike development...
