From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 11 01:47:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA12021 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 01:47:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from seidata.com (seidata.com [206.160.242.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA12014 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 01:47:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@seidata.com) Received: from seidata.com ([208.10.211.51]) by seidata.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA09167; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 04:47:56 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <34677233.598C2FD3@seidata.com> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 15:44:35 -0500 From: Mike Hoskins X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kragen \"Skewed\" Sitaker" , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel Pentium Bug References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Kragen "Skewed" Sitaker wrote: > Is this intended to keep malicious people from crashing your computer? Perhaps I mis-understood the original message the script was posted in, but I thought it was plainly stated in the original (even though not much more than the script was shown in the re-post here) that the true purpose of the code was to do (quote-un-quote) "postmortem cleanup". As if to say its real target use was locating programs containing the malicious opcodes after a lockup has occurred... so as to hopefully track down the culprit. That was, at least, my understanding... and I've been known to blunder once or twice in this life. ;) Either way, this is my last post on this issue... here, at least. --- Mike Hoskins SEI Data Network Services mike@seidata.com