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From: ag@amix.commodore.com (Keith "Cheese Whiz" Gabryelski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: How do you make your UNIX crash ???
Message-ID: <1334@amix.commodore.com>
Date: 12 Mar 91 23:32:03 GMT
References: <690@tndsyd.oz.au> <513@bria>
Reply-To: ag@amix.commodore.com (Keith "Cheese Whiz" Gabryelski)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Unix Development
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In article <513@bria> uunet!bria!mike writes:
>In an article, tndsyd.oz.au!berny (Berny Goodheart) writes:
>>I am interested in finding out known ways to make your version of
>>UNIX crash.
>
>[Code to scribble on /dev/kmem--deleted]

Sheeeeiiittt.  Just `reading' from /dev/kmem can hose your system if
you have write-only registers mapped into kernel address space.  Try:
``cat /dev/kmem >/dev/null''.

Pax, Keith
-- 
Too many people take too many risks.  Too many people I see get dis'd.
Keith Gabryelski                                 Advanced Products Group
ag@amix.commodore.com                                 ...!cbmvax!amix!ag