s892024@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. Muirden) (03/22/91)
Being compleatly bored today I decided to investigate the system response to stuff cat'd to /dev/kmem as has been discussed in this group in the past week or so. Anyway, I'm running an SCO Xenix 2.3.3 system on a '386. first I did: # cat /etc/passwd > /dev/kmem nothing happened (ie: system continued on normally). ok, so no processes or data were overwritten. not to be outdone, I decided to *really* swamp virtual memory. And sent the 700k zipfile for NCSA Telnet 2.3b14 to kmem (I had the file handy!) # cat tel23bin.zip > /dev/kmem BANG! system reboot! No Panic's, no nothing! just reboot! :-) oh well, what fun one can have :-) luckily there were no other users on at the time, but I was expecting a crash... ;-) ================================================================================ Richard Muirden, |Humble Computer Science Student & System Administrator, |Star Trek Fan! Wesley College Melbourne (Prahran Campus)+--My opinions are my own------------- mail: ram@lionet.wesley.oz.au |mail: s892024@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Indications of what humans would call a wild party" - Data, ST:TNG "Naked Now" ===============================================================================