I was fooling around with crashme bug #123272, and caused various programs to misbehave:
xterm closed Xorg server crashed sshd listerner processess crashed (!) It isn't clear to me especially how the last is possible, and it is especially unclear to me how it is possible in a very short duration of ~4 seconds of random code execution (it is hypothetically possible that it did int 0x80 for execve to sudo kill sshd, or /etc/init.d/ssh stop, but this isn't conceivable in that time). I also managed to get init to print a message: "PANIC: segmentation fault at 0x########, sleeping for 30 seconds". This was with modified crashme code, which was effectively running a forkbomb, sleeping for 30 seconds". This was with modified crashme code, which AFAICT was effectively running a forkbomb. However, a normal forkbomb doesn't cause this, and I can't see any reason why init itself should ever receive a segv; any such thing is indicitive of a bug in either init, or the kernel, right? Justin _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel
