bofh wrote:
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> Ok, when I first learnt how to use unix nearly 20 years ago, one of
> the things I learnt was that a privileged user can break shit, but
> should not cause kernels to hang or crash.  That would be considered a
> bug.  Only DOS and windows 3.1 do that :)

Unfortunately it's not that black and white, root can do some evil stuff
with the mem/kmem, drm/xf86 and a boat loat of other gateways into
kernel land.

The point is that root can do a lot of stupid things, this is a feature,
not a bug.. abuse wisely.

In this case the kernel was told, by root, to interpret garbage on some
partition.. pleasing 'root' is a high priority to 'kernel', they have a
friends with benefits relationship.

It's the best peep show I've seen, excluding all the ones with boobs.

Enjoy Unix, I sure do.
-Bryan.