How do you make your UNIX crash ???
Jonathan I. Kamens
jik at athena.mit.edu
Mon Mar 18 15:27:57 AEST 1991
In article <1991Mar16.195916.26282 at infoac.rmi.de>, siebeck at infoac.rmi.de (Wolfgang Siebeck ) writes:
|> what about
|>
|> # rm -f /dev/kmem
All of the other suggestions which discussed writing to /dev/kmem assume
that the device /dev/kmem is world-writeable.
Your suggestion assumes that the directory /dev is world-writeable, which is
a completely different thing.
In any case, I'm not even convinced that removing /dev/kmem will cause a
Unix system to crash. The kernel itself doesn't use /dev/kmem; the device is
used only by processes that want to get access to kernel memory. Deleting
/dev/kmem will simply prevent those processes (e.g. ps, ofiles) from working
properly. Not a catastrophic failure by any standard.
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