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Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 08:59:56 -0800 (PST)
From: Garrett Wollman <wollman>
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To: fredriks@mcs.com, wollman, freebsd-bugs
Subject: Re: kern/383
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Synopsis: dd to from /dev/mem panics the machine.

State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
State-Changed-By: wollman
State-Changed-When: Thu Feb 8 08:58:24 PST 1996
State-Changed-Why: 
It is an error to dd from random regions of /dev/mem.  All
sorts of nasty things can happen.