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How to PANIC a NeXT (mach kernel bug )

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From: jolly
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 21:11
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Hi folks !

I think it is very useful to know, that the NeXT-Mach Kernel
does not support more than 2oo threads !
Running a program under the gdb doesn t change anything ! To solve
this little problem is to use not more than 2oo threads. I think
that the most applications won t use all threads at the same time -
some will die after a while - so that the thread_set_limt() makes
them only a little bit slowlier.
I don t know if 3.o solves that kernel-bug. ( using 2.1 )

				Jolly B)

Post Scriptum : Don t try to test the bug, cause it may damage some
		files ( 2 files were destructed on my host due to the
		fsck !!)

Post Post Scriptum : I think that NeXT should not publish files, which
		     will panic the system after inserting only one
		     character. ( The only thing you have to do is to
		     insert a "2" in front of the "15" in the NeXT 
		     Operating System thread-example ).
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Subject: How to PANIC a NeXT (mach kernel bug )
Message-ID: <1992Sep1.211133.21384@news.lrz-muenchen.de>
Keywords: mach;threads;panic
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Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 21:11:33 GMT
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