Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 22:50:01 -0700 From: Lars Fredriksen <lars@mcs.com> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: kern/383: dd to from /dev/mem panics the machine. Message-ID: <199505060550.WAA23120@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 6 May 1995 00:45:13 -0500 <199505060545.AAA01428@fredriks.pr.mcs.net>
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>Number: 383 >Category: kern >Synopsis: dd to from /dev/mem panics the machine. >Confidential: yes >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs (FreeBSD bugs mailing list) >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri May 5 22:50:01 1995 >Originator: & Fredriksen >Organization: Flaaklypa Hackers >Release: FreeBSD 2.1.0-Development i386 >Environment: As far as I can tell the environment is not important here. >Description: The machine panics when you exectute the following command: dd if=/dev/mem of=/dev/null bs=10k count=1000 >How-To-Repeat: dd if=/dev/mem of=/dev/null bs=10k count=1000 >Fix: I don't have a panic dump at this point since I was in X when this happened. I will try to get one tomorrow, but I figured Jordan wanted to get this into his known-problems list. >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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