On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 01:12, you wrote: > And so who reports these problems? There are *far* fewer investigators > than there are for the ubiquitous desktop systems. Yet my gut feeling > is that there are plenty of opportunities left for the inquisitive > ne'er-do-well.
Reminds me.... Since June '94 I've had two six-month terms on MVS/OS390 systems. First term I managed to crash an initiator. It was repeatable. I was testing compilers (COBOL, PL/1 and maybe HLASM). The compiler used all the region available to it. INIT crashed, I think w9th SA0A (but it was a few years ago). It was on an IBM-owned system, and nobody seemed very interested in having it fixed. Second. FTP to OS/290's FTPD from a Windows box: ftp > put thisfile 'groupx.my.file' I was running ftp in a script. It would probably have been easy enough to pass the script around (were I more adept at cracking NT) and having everyone do it when the logged in. Crashes ftpd. Security problem? Could be. DoS/ Certainly. I found these problems in the normal course of my work which was _NOT_ to look for OS problems. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
