[clug] Causing a kernel oops

[Dale Shaw]

OpenBSD's kernel debugger ('ddb') has a hangman command that's very
useful after a panic..

 hangman [/s[0-9]]
        This is a tiny and handy tool for random kernel hangs analy-
        sis, of which its depth is controlled by the optional argu-
        ment of the default value of five.  It uses some sophisticat-
        ed heuristics to spot the global symbol that caused the hang.
        Since the discovering algorithm is a probabilistic one, you
        may spend substantial time to figure the exact symbol name.
        This smart thing requires a little of your attention, the in-
        put it accepts is mostly of the same format as that of the
        famous hangman(6) game, to which it, apparently, is obliged
        by the name.  Hint: the nm(1) utility might help.

Hangman (which stands for "hangs maniacal analyzer") first appeared in
OpenBSD 1.2.

:-)

Cheers,
Dale

-----Original Message-----
From: Darren Freeman [mailto:daz111 at rsphysse.anu.edu.au] 
Sent: Tuesday, 2 September 2003 7:04 PM
To: Simon Fowler
Cc: linux at samba.org

[...]
Or you could code in a game of ASCII-tetris that can only be played from
an OOPS()... A panic would have ASCII-asteroids of course, complete with
PC-speaker sound effects. Who wouldn't want that hard-coded into their
high-reliability server?
[...]