On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 02:30:51PM +0200, Bruno Cornec wrote: > Well in general yes, but at least on i386 (I can't test on something else) > doing cat /proc/kcore doesn't crash the system. And BTW why should it ? > There is nothing wrong with it (for ex. I used it a lot of times to try > to find a BIOS revision on i386). you should be using gdb on /proc/kcore; nothing else. > I just wonder if this could be used as a DOS from outside the system. In > which case, it would be a Bad Thing (tm :-) $ ls -l /proc/kcore -r-------- 1 root root 167776256 2003-07-24 08:46 /proc/kcore and if they're root, you're already fucked. -- "It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Thu Jul 24 08:55:56 2003
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