From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:55:50 +0000 Subject: Re: a nice way to reboot :-) Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 02:30:51PM +0200, Bruno Cornec wrote: > Well in general yes, but at least on i386 (I can't test on something else) > doing cat /proc/kcore doesn't crash the system. And BTW why should it ? > There is nothing wrong with it (for ex. I used it a lot of times to try > to find a BIOS revision on i386). you should be using gdb on /proc/kcore; nothing else. > I just wonder if this could be used as a DOS from outside the system. In > which case, it would be a Bad Thing (tm :-) $ ls -l /proc/kcore -r-------- 1 root root 167776256 2003-07-24 08:46 /proc/kcore and if they're root, you're already fucked. -- "It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk