Re: single machine debugging?/advice for noob on OS X panic
Re: single machine debugging?/advice for noob on OS X panic
- Subject: Re: single machine debugging?/advice for noob on OS X panic
- From: David Gatwood <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 10:09:34 -0800
On Nov 3, 2004, at 12:10 AM, Markus Hitter wrote:
Am 02.11.2004 um 21:57 schrieb David Gatwood:
Sometime in the recent past, Eric R Johnson wrote:
Markus, to your point regarding the user-land Java app crashing the
kernel... I couldn't agree more. There's been some bluster on the
SF thread about writing a virus when they figure out the issue, but
I think that's idle talk born of frustration. The potential is
pretty ugly, though.
The potential should be pretty much zero.
A sudden kernel panic causes the loss of opened, but unsaved
documents. It easily triggers the corruption of opened files. On a
default OS X installation, the machine won't come up again without
user interaction, resulting in a loss of all services hosted on this
machine for a potentially long time.
What else do you want to get the potential above "zero"?
Sorry, should have been more clear. I meant the potential for using
such a bug to help a virus propagate.
David
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