From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Feb 4 12:31:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA03550 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 4 Feb 1996 12:31:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA03525 Sun, 4 Feb 1996 12:31:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 12:31:19 -0800 (PST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199602042031.MAA03525@freefall.freebsd.org> To: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de, wollman, freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: kern/992 Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Synopsis: it is possible to crash the system using modload State-Changed-From-To: open-closed State-Changed-By: wollman State-Changed-When: Sun Feb 4 12:29:36 PST 1996 State-Changed-Why: Neither modload(8) nor the kernel has any way of knowing that what you have asked it to do makes no sense. (You shouldn't be trying to modload filesystems manually anyway.) The root user is supposed to know what he is doing.