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From: augustss@cs.chalmers.se (Lennart Augustsson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: [386BSD] Kernel bug
Message-ID: <1992Oct27.035229.10531@cs.chalmers.se>
Date: 27 Oct 92 03:52:29 GMT
Sender: news@cs.chalmers.se (News administrator)
Organization: Dept. of CS, Chalmers, Sweden
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I've just discovered a bug in the 386bsd kernel (with patches 1-57
installed). Accessing memory at high locations causes my machine
(a 33Mhz 486 with 16Mb memory, no external cache) to reboot.
The enclosed simple program triggers the bug.
Before I start locating it I'd just want to know if it's known
and there is already a patch for it. Any hints?
--- snip snip ---
main()
{
/* WARNING! Do not run this unless you want to crash your system */
*((char*)0xfdbfefac) = 1;
}
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-- Lennart Augustsson
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