How do you make your UNIX crash ???

Wolfgang Siebeck siebeck at infoac.rmi.de
Sun Mar 17 05:59:16 AEST 1991


rodney at tyrell.gtc.de (Rodney Volz) writes:

>In article <1991Mar12.132003.27383 at cs.widener.edu> brendan at cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes:
>>
>>In <513 at bria>, uunet!bria!mike writes:
>>>
>>>	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.

>Right. You don't even need C-programs to make the shoebox woe.

>$ cat /etc/termcap > /dev/kmem

>      :-)

>-Rod

what about

# rm -f /dev/kmem

???

Wolfgang
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siebeck at infoac.rmi.de (Wolfgang Siebeck)



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