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Subject: Re: How to crash a system and take a dump?
From: Gianni Tedesco <gianni@ecsc.co.uk>
To: sathish jayapalan <sathish_jayapalan@yahoo.com>
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On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 11:26, sathish jayapalan wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a doubt. I know that linux kernel doesn't crash
> so easily. Is there any way to panic the system? Can I
> go to the source area and insert/modify a variable in
> kernel code so that the kernel references a null
> pointer and crashes while running the kernel compiled
> with this variable. My aim is to learn crash dump
> analysis with 'Lcrash tool". Please help me out with
> this.

Im not sure about the Lcrash tool, but core dumps can be obtained from
the kernel at any time simply by reading /proc/kcore.

Hope that helps.

-- 
// Gianni Tedesco <gianni@ecsc.co.uk>
80% of all email is a figment of procmails imagination.

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