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In article <1992Oct1.113425.27867@cs.yale.edu> pharr-matthew@CS.YALE.EDU  
(Matthew Pharr) writes:
> In article <BvFunJ.E1H@gate.demon.co.uk> paul@seer.demon.co.uk
> 	(Paul Lynch) writes:
> >In article <1992Sep30.152220.18225@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org>  
> >jr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org (Jochen Richter) writes:
> >> The user program CRASHME that is available from some ftp-servers
> >> crashes NS 3.0 in less than a second!!! That is the depressing 
> >> result of my tests. It's a shame that NS hasn't been tested with
> >> this in many magazines demonstrated user program. It produces
> >> many different system exceptions that have to be handled properly
> >> by the kernel...
> >> After the crash you can't even reach NMI! You have to use 
> >> <Command><Alternate>*.
> >> 
> >> Shame!!!
> >> 
> >
> >So what.  Almost every Unix system is crashed in < 2 seconds by Crashme.
> >
> 
> If I remember correctly, a fair number of Unix systems -aren't-
> crashed by CrashMe.  Anyway, what CrashMe does is fork as many
> processes as it can and write to memory randomly, in the hopes of
> destroying something important that the o/s wasn't protecting
> properly.

Crashme does write random values to memory, but then executes them as
code. This is to test both the robustness of the processor and the
reliability of the kernel's fault handlers.

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