How do you make your UNIX crash ???

[Jonathan I. Kamens]

In article <1991Mar16.195916.26282 at infoac.rmi.de>, siebeck at infoac.rmi.de (Wolfgang Siebeck ) writes:
|> what about
|> 
|> # rm -f /dev/kmem

  All of the other suggestions which discussed writing to /dev/kmem assume
that the device /dev/kmem is world-writeable.

  Your suggestion assumes that the directory /dev is world-writeable, which is
a completely different thing.

  In any case, I'm not even convinced that removing /dev/kmem will cause a
Unix system to crash.  The kernel itself doesn't use /dev/kmem; the device is
used only by processes that want to get access to kernel memory.  Deleting
/dev/kmem will simply prevent those processes (e.g. ps, ofiles) from working
properly.  Not a catastrophic failure by any standard.

-- 
Jonathan Kamens			              USnail:
MIT Project Athena				11 Ashford Terrace
jik at Athena.MIT.EDU				Allston, MA  02134
Office: 617-253-8085			      Home: 617-782-0710