From: kevin lyda (kevin at domain suberic.net)
Date: Tue 03 Aug 1999 - 13:37:30 IST
jplooney at domain compapp.dcu.ie spoke thusly:
> That's the side Microsoft took in the Windows 3.11 days - if a program
>crashes your machine, that's not our problem - don't run the program.
>
> If your machine is unusable, for anyr reason, what so ever, it's Linux's
>fault.
really? try this as root:
# dd of=/dev/kmem if=/dev/zero
# dd if=/dev/zero of=`mount | grep ' / '| awk '{print $1}'`
# rm /bin/init
not satisfied with shell killing?
int main() {while(fork());}
the oom stuff's annoying, but no os is foolproof. the universe pumps out
very ingenius fools. as already mentioned there's a lot of discussion on
linux-kernel about oom (again). there are reasons why your suggested fix
won't work - i haven't followed the topic so i don't know them any more,
but pop over and read up on it.
kevin
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