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Subject: Re: easy way to crash freebsd
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On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Wes Peters wrote:

> You don't even have to overwrite it some times.  Accessing word-size-only
> registers in memory a byte at a time can cause a bus error and panic...

I have never worked with FreeBSD at this low a level.  How does one do
this and why?  :)

Jamie


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