> There are already so many ways to panic suns from userland... Do solaris2 bugs count (there being so damn many of them) ? I've no idea if they've fixed this but... Whilst innocently trying to do a project on a ss2000, I stumbled across YAB. It seems that in the true style of SVR4isms, Solaris2 has implemented Unix Domain sockets as named pipes. What's wrong with this ? Well, sockets aren't quite like named pipes, namedly because you can do accept/listen and some other nifty and useful things. Anyway, not realizing they were using named pipes, I assumed that all the socket commands worked! My mistake. It would seem that it didn't like the idea of trying to connect() from one unix socket to another (these are datagram sockets). Half a dozen or so crashes later, the sys admin politely asks me to cease due to the program crashing the machine (this is Thursday night, next day is last teaching day of the year :-). I've no idea why or how it worked...and it crashed as a "data fault" (some of the time). Oh, and that was without being root. darren