Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 May 1998 13:24:18 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.0.34 & crashme |
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On Tue, 26 May 1998, Philip Blundell wrote:
> >Well, I tried it both as root and as unprivileged user, > >and guess what: Linux-2.0.34pre16 locked solid in both > >cases after just about 10 minutes... :-( > > Running crashme as root is dangerous. You can kill the machine as root > yourself, and crashme can do it too if it manages to make the right system > calls.
I've been running several crashme sessions in parallel for the last 15 minutes, and my system is still running... I'm using kernel 2.1.101 with GCC2.8.1 / binutils2.9.0.3, which shouldn't even work :)
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