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Date:      Mon, 7 Jan 2002 12:20:35 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        Charles Burns <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com>
Cc:        questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: The only way I have ever found to crash FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.31.0201071219130.25474-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <F55WLUyjNUD6laL5w9O000186c2@hotmail.com>

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On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Charles Burns wrote:

> The only way that I have found to crash FreeBSD is to run a Linux program
> with statically linked binaries. Am am curious as to why this happens, if it
> still does as I have not tried since 4.4-Release, and I am wondering if
> there is a way to prevent this from occuring if the Linux executable's
> library linkage is not known.

Ensure the executable is appropriately branded.
If this problem is repeatable, then you should file a PR (userland
programs shouldn't be able to crash the machine). Include the name of
the linux binary you're using.


-- 
jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/
Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk
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