How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs with one line of C (userland)

sthaug at nethelp.no sthaug at nethelp.no
Mon Feb 18 08:41:56 PST 2008


> Did you actually bother to read his report?
> 
> While his example is used "/", if the report is correct then you
> just need to replace "/" with the path of any file system mount
> point that is world writable like say "/tmp".
> 
> Do you have /tmp mounted like this?
> /dev/ad0s4e    507630   162050   304970    35%    /tmp

Tried with 7.0-RC1 and the top level of a world writable file system.
No apparent ill effect.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no


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