this was a bug in 2.2.15 you could do
while(1) { connect() }
and it would crash the kernel it was fixed by 2.2.16
In local.linux-kernel-list, you wrote:
>I am enclosing a section of code that crashes the 2.2.15 kernel
>repeatedly. My system is a 266 Intel P2 with 128Mb ram. The
>crash is caused by the connect statement. It does not crash
>if the socket is in BLOCKING mode. My distribution is Slack 7.0
>if that matters.
>
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