Quoting Arador <diegocg@teleline.es>: > 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/ > but it cound cause some hardware damages cos i heard that in SystemV it cound cause some big hardware damages -- "Unix is user friendly not idiot friendly" KernelHacker ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://webmail.students.itu.edu.tr -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
