On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:06:57AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > - be root
That's your first mistake. > - cat /dev/watchdog or dd if=/dev/watchdog of=/dev/zero bs=1 count=1 or ..... > - wait one minute........ > > *reboot*! And that's the defined behavior of /dev/watchdog, yes. Many years too late to change it. > i have heard 2 opinions for now (contacted the author and also discussed on > wine-devel ) that this should be expected behaviour. > > being sysadmin quite a while, i cannot believe that (accidentally) reading a > device file (being root or not - what does that matter) triggers a system > reboot. If /dev/watchdog can be opened by non-root, that's an installation error. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
