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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Top 10 kernel oopses for the week ending January 5th, 2008
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 08:33:59 +0100
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Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
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On 08-01-2008 06:59, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 07:26:12PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>  
>> I usually just compile a small program like
>>
>> 	const char array[]="\xnn\xnn\xnn...";
>>
>> 	int main(int argc, char **argv)
>> 	{
>> 		printf("%p\n", array);
>> 		*(int *)0=0;
>> 	}
> Heh.  I prefer
> char main[] = {.....};
> for the same thing, with gdb a.out and no running at all.
...

IMHO, it would be really wasteful if Arian havn't published these
and maybe a few more such advices and links on this site, not
necessarily waiting for html-ized or howto-ized versions!

Thanks,
Jarek P.