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From: James Stevenson <mistral@stev.org>
To: ashley@alumni.caltech.edu
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.2.15 kernel bug report
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 11:43:48 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200104031143.LAA20434@linux.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200104030853.BAA00238@aa.home.org>
In-Reply-To: <200104030853.BAA00238@aa.home.org>



Hi

this was a bug in 2.2.15 you could do
while(1) { connect() }
and it would crash the kernel it was fixed by 2.2.16



In local.linux-kernel-list, you wrote:
>I am enclosing a section of code that crashes the 2.2.15 kernel
>repeatedly. My system is a 266 Intel P2 with 128Mb ram. The
>crash is caused by the connect statement. It does not crash
>if the socket is in BLOCKING mode. My distribution is Slack 7.0
>if that matters.
>


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2001-04-03 10:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-03  8:53 2.2.15 kernel bug report Allen Ashley
2001-04-03 10:21 ` Tim Waugh
2001-04-03 11:43 ` James Stevenson [this message]

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