How do you make your UNIX crash ???

Brendan Kehoe brendan at cs.widener.edu
Tue Mar 12 23:20:03 AEST 1991


In <513 at 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.
>	if ( (fd = open("/dev/kmem",O_RDWR)) == -1 )

   If your sysadmin (much less the vendor itself) left /dev/kmem world
   WRITABLE, they're begging for this kind of thing. Readable, possibly;
   writable, c'mon.
-- 
     Brendan Kehoe - Widener Sun Network Manager - brendan at cs.widener.edu
  Widener University in Chester, PA                A Bloody Sun-Dec War Zone



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