On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 05:19:33PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> > No, userland tools should never be able to crash the kernel (other
> > than root deliberately scribbling in kmem or something similar).
> 
> I once tried to define what it is about things like
> 	dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mem
> that exempt them from the "userland should never be able to crash the
> kernel" dictum.  I never really got anywhere.  Any thoughts?

Hm, the fact that you need to be root, at which point there are
many ways you can hose yourself?

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Dan.