From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Bruno Cornec <Bruno.Cornec@hp.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 12:32:54 +0000
Subject: a nice way to reboot :-)
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Hello,

Intrigued by a problem reported by a customer (tar cf /dev/st0 /) and remem=
bering
another issue I had, I tried to investigate a bit and found the following.

On Linux/ia64 when you do cat /proc/kcore, the system just reboots in a cou=
ple
of seconds (with RHAS 2.1 std kernel, updated kernel - 2.4.18-e.31) or even=
 with a=20
vanilla 2.4.21 + david's patches.
On Linux/i386, no such problem. As I have seen it on zx2000, rx4670, I thin=
k it's
not an isolated case.=20

Could you confirm on other type of machines ? And more smarter people could=
 even=20
probably provide a patch.

Thanks in advance,
Bruno.
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