From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 1 05:48:34 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA22397 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 05:48:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA22373 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 05:48:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id WAA25005; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 22:47:57 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36B5B071.FF9467CA@newsguy.com> Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 22:47:29 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ladavac Marino CC: "'Warner Losh'" , Andrew Kenneth Milton , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: some weird C References: <97A8CA5BF490D211A94F0000F6C2E55D09752B@s-lmh-wi-900.corpnet.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ladavac Marino wrote: > > [ML] That is, if there is any *after*. Completely and utterly > destroying the machine, or better, electrocuting the programmer > would have been just as correct actions of the compiler. If it were running some sort of Windows, I wouldn't be the least surprised by this behavior, but I do truly expect FreeBSD to prevent a program from destroying the computer, not to mention electrocuting the user. Unless, of course, he is running as root, in which case he might as well deserve to be electrocuted after all... :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com She just looked at him over the rotating pencil like, how slow can a mammal be and still have respiratory functions? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message