On Sat, 19 Apr 2003 11:38:36 +0300 Suleyman O Turkyilmaz <turkyilma1@itu.edu.tr> wrote: > i was thinking of running "cat /dev/zero > /dev/mem" > what would happend if i run this command It hangs the machine. Well, at least when i tested "cat /dev/random > /dev/mem" the machine stopped with funny colours in the screen. I don't know if it can have some "side effect" (ie; it overwrites some buffer that is written to disk before oopsing....) It's really cool that you can hang the machine when you want ;) -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
