This is like telling dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/kmem
crashes Linux horribly. Root (or the one who has permissions to a couple of
important devices) can really destroy anything he likes or crash the system
in any way he wants.
Cheers,
Jakub
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Jakub Jelinek | jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz
Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University
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UltraLinux | http://ultra.linux.cz/ | http://ultra.penguin.cz/
Linux version 2.2.5 on a sparc64 machine (3958.37 BogoMips)
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