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

[Wesley Shields]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 09:25:29AM -0800, Peter Sanchez wrote:
> 
> On Feb 18, 2008, at 7:07 AM, Wesley Shields wrote:
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>> 
>> I tried this using /tmp/ as argv[1] and it didn't crash a 6.2 machine or
>> a -current from a few weeks ago.  Maybe the number of files has to be
>> increased?  I bumped it up to 100000 and tried on a 6.2 machine, but I
>> ran out of inodes before I could induce a crash.  :)
>> 
>> Maybe I'm doing something wrong?
> 
> I believe the panic doesn't occur until boot. Did you reboot the box after 
> writing the files to /tmp?
> 
> Peter

I did on a 6.2 machine with 10000 files in /tmp.  I can reboot the
-current machine later tonight if you think it will make a difference.

-- WXS