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On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 02:24:37AM +0200, Luigi Genoni wrote:
> This kind of code would kill any Unix system, i think, not just linux 2.4
> boxes.
> 

I tried it on 2.2.19-ppc and could kill it with ^C at the prompt, or from
root if I was already logged in.  Trying to iniate connections to ssh didn't
produce any results after about 30 seconds.

Once it was killed the system was fine.

Haven't tried 2.4 yet...