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Article #27108An interesting way to crash gulam shell
From: mj
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1987 21:06
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1987 21:06
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I have a nice mthod for a spectacular crash of Gulam.prg (a version
posted to the net). It is not that I want to brag about it, but you
may do it by a mistake nad have a nasty surprise.
WARNING! Try it only on RAM drive or scratch floppy, since the only
method of recovery will be to de-install RAM drive, or reformat your
disk!!!!
Try the following sequence of commands:
mkdir testd
mkdir testd\expmd
ls -l >testd\dirf # this for better effect
cp testd\* testd\expmd
Now lean back and watch effects. There is nothing, short of resetting
your computer, that you can do anyway. (It will create a recursive
structure of subdirectories which you cannot remove, since rm command
does not have either -r or -f option. GEM will also barf on you after
a short while, coming with nonsense error messages).
I believe that this bug is closely related to 'rm *', mentioned by
John Turner.
Michal Jaegermann
Myrias Research Corporation
Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA
...{ihnp4, ubc-vision}!alberta!myrias!mj
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