bofh wrote: > Ok, when I first learnt how to use unix nearly 20 years ago, one of > the things I learnt was that a privileged user can break shit, but > should not cause kernels to hang or crash. That would be considered a > bug. Only DOS and windows 3.1 do that :)
Unfortunately it's not that black and white, root can do some evil stuff with the mem/kmem, drm/xf86 and a boat loat of other gateways into kernel land. The point is that root can do a lot of stupid things, this is a feature, not a bug.. abuse wisely. In this case the kernel was told, by root, to interpret garbage on some partition.. pleasing 'root' is a high priority to 'kernel', they have a friends with benefits relationship. It's the best peep show I've seen, excluding all the ones with boobs. Enjoy Unix, I sure do. -Bryan.
