Re: [gtk-list] program causes computer to instantly reboot

[Kevin Cozens <kcozens interlog com>]

At 01:36 PM 07/03/1999 -0600, you wrote:
>The bug was short and dumb. The program was expecting a certain character
>in a file at which point it would quit reading from the file... the
>character wasn't there so obviously the program was going to try and
>continue to read from the file... I never would have expected this to
>reboot my machine however.
>
>Is this normal somehow????????????????????

This does not sound right. A user level program should not be able to cause
a reboot of the computer. At least not in a unix environment. What
operating system version are you using and could you reproduce the problem?


Cheers!

Kevin.  (http://www.interlog.com/~kcozens/)

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