On May 11, 2012, at 9:23 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote:

> While playing with GPU programming, I had a lot of such freeze, and they 
> never locked the CPU. I was always able to connect to my machine though SSH.

So a regular user process can permanently lock up the display, requiring a 
reboot, just by executing some bad GPU code?! That’s kind of a bad privilege 
violation and could be considered a DoS exploit.

—Jens
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