[Plug] Crashing Linux

["Nick R" <laktar@hotmail.com>]

My programming prof started talking about stack overflows today in class and 
I commented that you probably couldn't do that in Linux, that it would just 
shut down the program. Well I telnetted into my box at home and tried it out 
for him. Sure enough I got a segmentation fault and the program exited, 
leaving my computer up and running sans problems. It got me thinking. What 
does it actually take to crash a Linux box? I'd assume you wouldn't be able 
to just write to memory in kernel space or something like you could in W95 
and the like. Short of modifying the kernel code what does it take to crash 
a Linux box & is there any way to do this w/o root access?


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