Re: head -c 32 /dev/socksys caused panic?

[alan () LXORGUK UKUU ORG UK (Alan Cox)]

> I was experimenting with different sources of random data when I ran the
> following command "head -c 32 /dev/socksys" only to find my system go into
> a complete panic, crash, and reboot.  I should note that I was logged in as
> an ordinary user, and the system is Slackware 2.0.34.
>
> Has anyone else heard of something like this?

Its not directly a Linux bug, but it does seem to a bug in the iBCS2 package
some vendors ship for SCO emulation etc. And yes with iBCS2 loaded I can
duplicate your report