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Re: Problem with red hat 6.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Vicherek)
Fri Dec 1 13:51:33 2000
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 15:03:51 -0500 (EST)
From: Jan Vicherek <honza@ied.com>
To: nayakvinod <nayakvinod@hotmail.com>
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Commandment # 11 : Thou shall not write recursive calls and then publicly
wonder what the heck happened.
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, nayakvinod wrote:
> I found a problem, nay a very serious bug in red hat 6.1(kernel 2.2.12).
>
> I login as an ordinary user and did as follows( in fact I wrote a faulty shell program and put it in a directory in PATH):
>
> $ mkdir bin
> $ cat >bin/hello
> hello
> ^D
> $ chmod 0755 bin/hello
> $ hello
>
> This system crashed after giving messages like:
>
> syslog: Out of memory
> ....
> ......
> .....
>
> init: out of memory
>
>
> First I suspected that the problem is in kernel2.2.12. But when I booted RED hat 6.2 with this kernel and run the same culprit shell prog, the process terminated with the messge:
> bash: Out of memory!
> which it should do.
> Vinod Nayak
>
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