[8410] in bugtraq
Re: head -c 32 /dev/socksys caused panic?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Wed Nov 4 19:52:15 1998
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 04:11:34 +0000
Reply-To: Alan Cox <alan@LXORGUK.UKUU.ORG.UK>
From: Alan Cox <alan@LXORGUK.UKUU.ORG.UK>
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To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199811030421.XAA21807@dojo1> from "A Fortunate K-9" at Nov 2,
98 11:19:30 pm
> I was experimenting with different sources of random data when I ran the
> following command "head -c 32 /dev/socksys" only to find my system go into
> a complete panic, crash, and reboot. I should note that I was logged in as
> an ordinary user, and the system is Slackware 2.0.34.
>
> Has anyone else heard of something like this?
Its not directly a Linux bug, but it does seem to a bug in the iBCS2 package
some vendors ship for SCO emulation etc. And yes with iBCS2 loaded I can
duplicate your report
