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- From: rogerj@aix.rpi.edu (Diversion (Jeff Rogers))
- Subject: Re: sync; sync; sync; was Re: Computer Superstition
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- References: <1992Nov18.132507.22731@bnr.uk> <NICKEL.92Nov18181710@desaster.cs.tu-berlin.de> <1992Nov19.134510.16559@uvm.edu> <By13r5.B5L@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <thecure.722337922@munagin>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 10:13:17 GMT
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- thecure@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (matthew aardvarkious) writes:
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- >dagbrown@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Dave Brown) writes:
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- >>In article <1992Nov19.134510.16559@uvm.edu> wollman@sadye (Garrett Wollman) writes:
- >>>Or today's modern operating systems which know to sync their disks
- >>>before rebooting or halting. From reboot(1):
- >> ^^^ Cool! I want an account
- >>on a computer where any user can invoke reboot....
-
- >>;-)
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- >Some of the early machines had a command called crash(1).
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- Some still do. On the Sun IPC's here, crashme (available from a variety of
- places, none of which I can think of - probably comp.sources.unix archives
- or something similar) works nicely (with the proper parameters). Or it used
- to, I'm not sure if it still does. I haven't tried it in a while.
-
- >The logic was, that if you took away the challenge of crashing the machine,
- >then people wouldn't bother. It worked until people started using
- >computers that they knew nothing about.
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- I'm not too sure if this still holds... (well, I guess figuring out what
- parameters to use was a challenge ;-)
-
- Diversion
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