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Date:      Thu, 15 Nov 2001 19:25:41 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Andrew Atrens" <atrens@nortelnetworks.com>
To:        java@freebsd.org
Subject:   Small prog to demonstrate linux-jdk1.3.x signal handling problem.
Message-ID:  <20011115191406.M1158-100000@hcarp00g.ca.nortel.com>
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All,

Here is a small program which kills both (linux) Sun JDK 1.3.x/1.4.x
Hotspot JVM, _and_ the (linux) IBM JDK 1.3.0 JVM.

The Sun JVMs will SEGV. The IBM JVM 'runs away' and is unreponsive to
anything but SIGKILL.


Cheers,

Andrew.





import java.io.*;


public class ClientOfDeath {

   static String s = null;

   public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
     for (;;) {
         s = null;
         try {
            s.compareTo("");
         } catch (NullPointerException n) {
            s = "";
         }
     }
   }
}





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