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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I was curious how stable TUX is when a user space
module misbehaves.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I modified demo2.c to work at first, then cause a
segmentation fault. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>if (count++ == 15)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>{</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> *((char *)0) = 'X';</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>}</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This locked up TUX. I couldn't stop it with
"/etc/init.d/tux stop". The rest of the computer was okay, but TUX
wouldn't go down until I rebooted.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am using version 3.2.18 of TUX, as built and
delivered in Fedora.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is this the expected behavior of TUX, or is this a
bug? Based on the documentation, I expected TUX to
recover.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>