On 03/11/02 nate did speaketh: > it is not unusual, I have seen this happen on many operaitng systems > especially with CD-R media. the result would of been the same if > you were not root. Probably the system filled with I/O errors and > couldn't continue. The software has only limited resources to > prevent a hardware related crash
Would not desirable behaviour be to log as many errors as possible, but recover from the hardware problem? I see no reason why any software, user space or kernel space, should crash due to errors in a peripheral. Bad RAM is one thing, but errors on a CD? I disagree. This is incorrect behavour for any OS. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Harmful: http://expita.com/nomime.html
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