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Re: [Plug] Crashing Linux
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Yeah, modifying the hardware on the running system will usually do it. Try
pulling a SIMM sometime! Or powering down an external SCSI drive
(especially if you've got a swap partition in use on it). Other than that,
I rarely see UNIX-based systems crash (unless I'm writing a device driver on
them...)
-----Original Message-----
From: Morgan Wajda-Levie <mpwl@locke.ccil.org>
Date: Thursday, August 19, 1999 23:37
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 07:21:51PM -0700, Nick R wrote:
> 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.
This is a bit of a cheap trick, but a friend of mine crashed his box
by accidentally unplugging his mounted Win95 drive. He was able to
write a file, but when he ran make it segfaulted, and then logging out
of X hung it.
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