Re: Linux-2.0.34 & crashme

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl)
Tue, 26 May 1998 13:24:18 +0200 (MET DST)


On Tue, 26 May 1998, Philip Blundell wrote:

> >Well, I tried it both as root and as unprivileged user,
> >and guess what: Linux-2.0.34pre16 locked solid in both
> >cases after just about 10 minutes... :-(
>
> Running crashme as root is dangerous. You can kill the machine as root
> yourself, and crashme can do it too if it manages to make the right system
> calls.

I've been running several crashme sessions in parallel for
the last 15 minutes, and my system is still running...
I'm using kernel 2.1.101 with GCC2.8.1 / binutils2.9.0.3,
which shouldn't even work :)

Rik.
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