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From: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: a nice way to reboot :-)
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 14:33:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105888452806386@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105887789030732@msgid-missing>

On Tuesday 22 July 2003 7:31 am, Bruno Cornec wrote:
> Grant Grundler (iod00d@hp.com) said:
> 
> > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 02:32:54PM +0200, Bruno Cornec wrote:
> > > On Linux/ia64 when you do cat /proc/kcore, the system just reboots in a couple
> > > of seconds (with RHAS 2.1 std kernel, updated kernel - 2.4.18-e.31) or even with a 
> > > vanilla 2.4.21 + david's patches.
> > 
> > Known behavior. 
> 
> Humm :-) I tend to find that hardly acceptable that people can crash so easily 
> a system. 

Believe me, this has been on our list of really annoying things
for a long time.  The fact that this is just one of many ways that
root can crash the box has meant that it hasn't made it to the
top of the list (yet).  It'll be there soon, though...

Bjorn


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-07-22 14:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-22 12:32 a nice way to reboot :-) Bruno Cornec
2003-07-22 13:05 ` Grant Grundler
2003-07-22 13:31 ` Bruno Cornec
2003-07-22 14:33 ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
2003-07-22 15:44 ` digiovanni, lucio
2003-07-23  3:50 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-07-24 12:30 ` Bruno Cornec
2003-07-24 12:52 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-07-24 12:55 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-07-24 13:53 ` Van Maren, Kevin

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