Subject: Re: Pentium Bug may cause system crash
To: None <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
From: Lennart Augustsson <augustss@cs.chalmers.se>
List: current-users
Date: 11/12/1997 20:17:39
> A description of the files touched by the patch was sent to bugtraq;
> it claimed that only machdep.o and locore.o were touched, which
> suggests to me that something subtler and more effective than a
> brute-force search for the instruction pattern at exec time was done..
It's been claimed that if you lock the UI trap handler in the
cache it won't freeze.
-- Lennart