Re: Bus error in Netscape

[Peter Allen <P.Allen@pallen.dabsol.co.uk>]

George Bonser wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 22 May 1999, Christopher J. Morrone wrote:
> 
> >
> > Sounds dangerous...doesn't a bus error mean that the app tried to write
> > into kernel space memory?  If so, wouldn't giving it root access allow it
> > to overwrite kernel memory and crash the system?
> >
> 
> Not dangerous at all. It will still not be allowed to write to kernel
> protected space (root is still a user). I have had this problem with the

Just out of pure interest does that mean that if you start linux from
lilo
with linux init=/bin/bash (Is it that, I can never remember)(as I don't
use
it, of course.)
anyway if you do does that give you root permissions of "super root"
permissions.

Thanks,
			Peter Allen