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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?

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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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