Re: How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs with one line of C (userland)




On Feb 18, 2008, at 7:07 AM, Wesley Shields wrote:


I tried this using /tmp/ as argv[1] and it didn't crash a 6.2 machine or
a -current from a few weeks ago. Maybe the number of files has to be
increased? I bumped it up to 100000 and tried on a 6.2 machine, but I
ran out of inodes before I could induce a crash. :)

Maybe I'm doing something wrong?

I believe the panic doesn't occur until boot. Did you reboot the box after writing the files to /tmp?

Peter



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