Messages in this thread | | | From | Jakub Jelinek <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.2.5 crash via /dev/port | Date | Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:19:52 +0200 (CEST) |
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> cat /dev/port > > and Linux crashes, i.e., it doesn't respond to any key combinations.
This is like telling dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/kmem crashes Linux horribly. Root (or the one who has permissions to a couple of important devices) can really destroy anything he likes or crash the system in any way he wants.
Cheers, Jakub ___________________________________________________________________ Jakub Jelinek | jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University ___________________________________________________________________ UltraLinux | http://ultra.linux.cz/ | http://ultra.penguin.cz/ Linux version 2.2.5 on a sparc64 machine (3958.37 BogoMips) ___________________________________________________________________
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