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Who needs /dev/kmem?

Posted Mar 6, 2009 13:18 UTC (Fri) by ummmwhat (guest, #54087)
Parent article: Who needs /dev/kmem?

I need /dev/kmem to play kmem Russian roulette:

2 or more players do execute "dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/kmem bs=1 count=1 seek=$RANDOM" successively. The one who crashes the computer has to make a beer run, brew coffee or whatever you like.
It's a funny game for geeks, but don't do that on production systems ;-)

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