On Wednesday 30 March 2005 01:55 pm, Olivier Galibert wrote: > Actually it is. Dereferencing a null pointer is either undefined or > implementation-dependant in the standard (don't remember which), and > as such the compiler can do whatever it wants, be it starting nethack
Can this be configured to start slashem instead? ;) > or not doing the dereference in the first place. What scares me is, "Is there any code in the kernel that does this, or something similarly stupid?". I regard the linux kernel as mostly sane, and I'd rather not have that illusion of safety broken* any time soon. Sure, its great for an app to randomly segfault, but having the kernel oops randomly is not much fun. To quote a sig I once saw on usenet: "Why Linux is better than Windows, Reason #325: No needing to reboot every 15 seconds; or every 3 seconds during full moons." * I am by no means an expert on kernel programing -- Patrick "Diablo-D3" McFarland || [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
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