How do you make your UNIX crash ???

Andreas Kessemeier akes at mcshh.hanse.de
Fri Mar 22 07:02:30 AEST 1991


les at chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>AT&T  7300's and 3b1's (the Unix-PC) will crash if you write to the
>floppy from a shared-memory segment.

This can be done much simpler on some Systems with a poor implementation
of shared memory:

	- create a shared memory segment.
	- do a shmat() on that segment.
	- do a write(1,"foo",3)

The manual says: "never do systemcalls with attached shared memory",
but crashing the machine in such a case is much more poor than this
restiction.

Greets,
	Andreas

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