[geeks] distributedfolding

Kurt Huhn kurt at k-huhn.com
Fri Oct 10 09:30:52 CDT 2003


On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 15:10:13 +0200
Bjorn Ramqvist wrote:

> Kurt Huhn wrote:
> > 
> > Anyone else having trouble running the 32bit text client for Irix?
> > 
> > Every every time it downloads an update it crashes my O2.  As in,
> > creashes my O2.  The whole system goes down and reboots.
> 
> This is serious. The kernel should prevent such things happening.
> (Crashing a whole system cause of a faulty application)
> 

Yeah, fairly serious.  Nothing else is wrong with that system, it runs
like a scalded cat otherwise.  Either that software is *very* poorly
coded, or the kernel on my O2 is vulnerable to some rather serious
fuckery.

-- 
Kurt                 "I am not aware that any community has a right to 
kurt at k-huhn.com       force another to be civilized." 
                                                   --John Stuart Mill 



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