Re: SunOS fatal bugs (was Re: udp packet storms - ping death)

[avalon () coombs anu edu au (Darren Reed)]

> There are already so many ways to panic suns from userland...

Do solaris2 bugs count (there being so damn many of them) ?
I've no idea if they've fixed this but...

Whilst innocently trying to do a project on a ss2000, I stumbled across
YAB.  It seems that in the true style of SVR4isms, Solaris2 has implemented
Unix Domain sockets as named pipes.  What's wrong with this ?  Well, sockets
aren't quite like named pipes, namedly because you can do accept/listen and
some other nifty and useful things.  Anyway, not realizing they were using
named pipes, I assumed that all the socket commands worked!  My mistake.
It would seem that it didn't like the idea of trying to connect() from one
unix socket to another (these are datagram sockets).  Half a dozen or so
crashes later, the sys admin politely asks me to cease due to the program
crashing the machine (this is Thursday night, next day is last teaching
day of the year :-).  I've no idea why or how it worked...and it crashed
as a "data fault" (some of the time).

Oh, and that was without being root.

darren