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* kernel panic!
@ 2005-04-11 16:30 sauro
  2005-04-11 17:09 ` Lee Revell
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From: sauro @ 2005-04-11 16:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

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Is it true that only kernel drivers and modules can cause a "kernel panic"?
I mean, is it possible for an user level application to be the cause of 
a "kernel panic"? If it is, which kind of operations can do that?

Thanks in advance

-- 
Sauro Salomoni

Ztec
www.ztec.com.br


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* Re: kernel panic!
  2005-04-11 16:30 kernel panic! sauro
@ 2005-04-11 17:09 ` Lee Revell
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Lee Revell @ 2005-04-11 17:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: sauro; +Cc: linux-kernel

On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 13:30 -0300, sauro wrote:
> I mean, is it possible for an user level application to be the cause of 
> a "kernel panic"? If it is, which kind of operations can do that?

If this happens then by definition it's a bug in the kernel (or a
hardware failure).  It's never the fault of the userspace application
that triggers the panic.

If you think you have found such a bug in the kernel, please post the
details to this list.

Lee



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