On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Sean Kelly wrote:
> On my 5.0-CURRENT kernel built 45 minutes ago, I can bring my system to its
> knees by doing
> 
> # cat /dev/io
> 
> While I understand that this isn't exactly something one would normally be
> doing, is it really something that should bring the system down?

You're running as root.  So does "yes > /dev/da0" and "cat /dev/urandom >
/dev/mem" and ... (infinity)

-Nate


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