How do you make your UNIX crash ???

Eric Berggren berggren at eecs.cs.pdx.edu
Mon Mar 18 17:25:09 AEST 1991


jik at athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:

>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.

  Well, shoot... go for the whole filesystem! 

rm -f /dev/[Place YOUR disk driver here!]

-e.b.

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