Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Apr 1998 13:22:43 -0400 (EDT) | From | Illuminatus Primus <> | Subject | Re: Did anyone else notice? |
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Thanks.. that makes sense.
What was the new one added for?
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Kevin Lentin wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 02:43:18AM -0400, Illuminatus Primus wrote: > > What is the sys_reboot() magic constant used for? > > I believe it is a safety mechanism to prevent the system call from being > triggered incorrectly. There are 4 magics, the first is 0xfee1dead and the > other 3 are 'special'. You need to quote the first and one of the other 3 > to get it to happen. The 'special' ones have a cunning little meaning that > required a new one to be added due to recent events. > > -- > [======================================================================] > [ Kevin Lentin Email: K.Lentin@cs.monash.edu.au ] > [ finger kevinl@fangorn.cs.monash.edu.au for PGP public key block. ] > [ KeyId: 06808EED FingerPrint: 6024308DE1F84314 811B511DBA6FD596 ] > [======================================================================] >
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