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From: ccjason@quadrophenia.ucdavis.edu (Jason Gabler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: [BUG] Memory crunch causes reboot?
Date: 17 Dec 1995 11:15:55 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
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Running XFree... programming with LessTif (the freeware Motif)...
2.1R (from ftp archives).

Not being totally used to Motif, I made some gross bugs in my code ;).  The
program generatd some infinite set of widgets... a.k.a. infinite use of
memory.  I compiled and ran this NOT as root, nor was it setuid to root.
Going..,going..going...crunch..crunch..gri-ii-ii-i-i-nding... blink. Reboot.

This *shouldn't* happen, right?

[As a side not, I have had some randome (2 or 3) reboots for appearantly no
reason.  Since I ddint have any evidence pertaining to the cause, I havent
bothered to seriously report them]



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