Re: CRASHME crashes NS 3.0 in less than a second!!!

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From: Matthew Dillon
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 05:13

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>In article <1992Oct2.115924.763@glocke.hotb.sub.org> frank@glocke.hotb.sub.org (Frank Thomas) writes:
>>In article <1992Oct1.113425.27867@cs.yale.edu> pharr-matthew@CS.YALE.EDU
>(Matthew Pharr) writes:
>...
>>
>> matt
>Wrong! Yes it forks, and each son writes random bytes to KNOWN location
>and then tries to execute this random code. BTW I hope (and believe) that
>040 is ok but the OS is wrong.
>
>Frank

    Considering that the NeXT does not support resource limits in any way
    shape or form except for the stack limit, it's very easy to crash the
    machine.

					    -Matt

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Subject: Re:  CRASHME crashes NS 3.0 in less than a second!!!
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