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From: gill@boris.mscs.mu.edu (VAXDEATH (Ender) Gill)
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Subject: Re: How do you make your UNIX crash ???
Keywords: panic that kernel
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Date: 10 Mar 91 17:02:36 GMT
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In article <690@tndsyd.oz.au> berny@tndsyd.oz.au (Berny Goodheart) writes:
>
>I am interested in finding out known ways to make your version of UNIX
>crash. If you know of a particular application, program bug or programming


main()
{
    fork ();
    main ();
}

This brought the system crashing to a halt, before they set up a quota
for process.  The system was a SysV 3.0, on 3B5.
    Also, running two copies of Franz Lisp simultaneously would cause
the system to crash.  This bug has since been fixed.


cheers
-dicky gill (Violator)
-gill@boris.mscs.mu.edu