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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!think.com!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: [386bsd] How To Nuke 386bsd!!! Message-ID: <1992Dec7.034604.14841@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <ByntK9.1D6@news.chalmers.se> <1992Dec7.000113.20304@mel.dit.csiro.au> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 03:46:04 GMT Lines: 43 In article <1992Dec7.000113.20304@mel.dit.csiro.au> tim@catt.citri.edu.au writes: >In article 1D6@news.chalmers.se, dana@me.chalmers.se (Dan Andersson) writes: >> >>Hi there... I just found out a 'small' bug in 386bsd. >> >>I happened to mistype some zeroes in 'limit datasize 5000000' in tcshell. >> >>It was an immediate kill... The system rebooted instantly. >> >>Yesss, i did test again, same result. It seems to me that it is very >>serious if anyone can nuke the system so easy. It also seems like all >>users can nuke the system at any time and location. >> >>Suggestion. >> >>Pls anyone, that are working on version 0.2. Take a look at thiss little one. >> >> >>Dan Andersson /// dana@theta.me.chalmers.se > > >This doesn't happen on my system. It seems to just stay at 32768K. > >--- >________________________________________________________________________________ > Tim Liddelow for(;;) fork(); > Systems Programmer > Centre of Advanced Technology in Telecommunications My brain on a bad day. > CITRI, Melbourne, Australia > internet : tim@kimba.catt.citri.edu.au > Phone : +61 3 282 2455 Fax : +61 3 282 2444 >________________________________________________________________________________ > The problem maybe related to the way that you motherboard handles floating point exception. Try a simple program that does a floating point divide by 0.0. If the system re-boots you got a bad motherboard. Amancio Hasty -- Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming