How do you make your UNIX crash ???

VAXDEATH Ender Gill gill at boris.mscs.mu.edu
Mon Mar 11 03:02:36 AEST 1991


In article <690 at tndsyd.oz.au> berny at tndsyd.oz.au (Berny Goodheart) writes:
>
>I am interested in finding out known ways to make your version of UNIX
>crash. If you know of a particular application, program bug or programming


main()
{
    fork ();
    main ();
}

This brought the system crashing to a halt, before they set up a quota
for process.  The system was a SysV 3.0, on 3B5.
    Also, running two copies of Franz Lisp simultaneously would cause
the system to crash.  This bug has since been fixed.


cheers
-dicky gill (Violator)
-gill at boris.mscs.mu.edu



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