A second attempt (sleep5 core) on a slackware 3.6 system with 2.2.0 did
nothing
David Lang
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>
> On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 16:05:15 +1100
> > From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
> > To: pacman <pacman-kernel@cqc.com>
> > Cc: dburcaw@terraplex.com, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> > Subject: Re: 2.2.0 SECURITY
> >
> > pacman-kernel@cqc.com writes:
> > > Richard Gooch writes the following:
> > > >
> > > >Just tried this on a dual PPro:
> > > >
> > > >% cat > try.c
> > > >void main ()
> > > >{
> > > > * (unsigned int *) 0 = 0;
> > > >}
> > > >% cc -o try try.c
> > > >% ./try
> > > >Segmentation fault
> > > >% ldd core
> > >
> > > I did a "sleep 5", killed it with ^\ (SIGQUIT), ldd'ed the core as a
> > > non-root, and it didn't reboot right away, but it did print an error
> > > message about a bad pmd directory entry. I will do it again and
> > > write down the full error message, if I can. I can provide the core
> > > file and .config if necessary,
> >
> > Nope, tried that and things are stable as ever. BTW:
> >
> > % free
> > total used free shared buffers cached
> > Mem: 193156 71552 121604 30508 18696 30240
> > -/+ buffers/cache: 22616 170540
> > Swap: 0 0 0
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Richard....
> >
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