Re: 2.2.0 SECURITY

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Wed, 27 Jan 1999 16:05:15 +1100


pacman-kernel@cqc.com writes:
> Richard Gooch writes the following:
> >
> >Just tried this on a dual PPro:
> >
> >% cat > try.c
> >void main ()
> >{
> > * (unsigned int *) 0 = 0;
> >}
> >% cc -o try try.c
> >% ./try
> >Segmentation fault
> >% ldd core
>
> I did a "sleep 5", killed it with ^\ (SIGQUIT), ldd'ed the core as a
> non-root, and it didn't reboot right away, but it did print an error
> message about a bad pmd directory entry. I will do it again and
> write down the full error message, if I can. I can provide the core
> file and .config if necessary,

Nope, tried that and things are stable as ever. BTW:

% free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 193156 71552 121604 30508 18696 30240
-/+ buffers/cache: 22616 170540
Swap: 0 0 0

Regards,

Richard....

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