Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 12:25:46 -0600 (CST) From: "Mike Pritchard" <mpp@mpp.minn.net> To: wollman@freefall.freebsd.org (Garrett Wollman) Cc: fredriks@mcs.com, wollman@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/383 Message-ID: <199602081825.MAA03687@mpp.minn.net> In-Reply-To: <199602081659.IAA01134@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Garrett Wollman" at Feb 8, 96 08:59:56 am
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Garrett Wollman wrote: > > 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. Maybe. FreeBSD is the only system I've used where I could crash it by dd'ing from /dev/mem. Plus this one only seems to panic it if you are running from X-windows. -- Mike Pritchard mpp@minn.net "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"
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