Crash a RISC machine from user-mode code

Bruce Worden bruce at seismo.gps.caltech.edu
Tue Aug 14 03:32:08 AEST 1990


In article <1990Aug13.124707.246 at dg-rtp.dg.com> trawick at bigbird.rtp.dg.com () writes:
>I tried crashme on a DG Aviion which is based on the Motorola 88100.
>The system was running DG/UX 4.30.  I compiled it with (Gnu) cc.
>Crashme reports catching 25 signals before it terminates.  It
>certainly doesn't crash the machine.

Likewise here on Sun 4's running under 4.1.  The program caught 30 signals 
and then hung. A simple ^C killed it.

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