Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Jun 1998 00:03:28 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: More info on 104 oops [probably procfs bug] |
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On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Chris Evans wrote:
> >On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Bill Hawes wrote: > >> Hi Andrea, >> >> Quite a while back I added a mechanism to /proc so that modules can have >> their use counts incremented when a /proc directory is being referenced. This >> prevents the problems with having a module removed while a shell or other >> application is sitting in the module's /proc directory. > >Hmm, it was about the time of the addition of this mechanism, that I >started to be able to completely screw the kernel with "rm -rf /proc" ;-) > >rm -rf /proc still causes oopses hung processes and other unpleasantries.
At least you can run generate the Oops only as root (you could also rm -rf /), while the modules proc unregistering problem was very more serious since a croned rmmod -a could cause mess if a user would been in /proc/parport at that time.
Andrea[s] Arcangeli
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