This happend to me right noww as I tried to write a gui task manager for the GNU/Linux OS
Try it again
Do you know the definition of insanity?
What’s really insane is that sometimes the second identical test actually works.
This is why VM snapshotting is so valuable.
My IDE is my real workstation, and it hosts a VM in which I can plop some code, run it, crash, revert and try again.
My first programming related memory is of the QBasic interpreter.
I had written some code I was quite happy with, but not saved it yet. As part of a subroutine for sound output, I quickly wrote a loop from 20 to 20000 to output a test signal over 1 second each with that frequency via the PC speaker and hit execute.
Realizing my mistake, It being MS-DOS and thus single-threaded, I couldn’t Ctrl+C out of it without killing QBasic altogether and losing my code. I couldn’t turn town the PC speaker.
I ended up closing various doors between the PC and me and waiting it out.
How are you crashing your system?! Crashing program sure, but the entire system?
Doesn’t explain OPs task management example. And won’t crash the kernel, just make things unresponsive
it didn’t crash the kernel, it just killed every process that isn’t run by the root user, which kind of feels like a crash
There’s this game “HyperRougue”. Run it on Arch.
hyperrogue-git version 13.0d.r60.g27fb2d92-1
Go to settings -> 3D configuration -> projection -> projection type -> . Cycle through the projection types. One of them causes something good enough to call a crash.
I don’t remember anymore if it was just a display driver crash or a kernel crash and I haven’t updated to a newer version (which might have fixed it).
rm -rf <some placeholder>
Works for . current directory. Yay!
… also works for / system root. 🔥 Nay!
Does it? I thought / specifically was protected, and you needed to add --no-preserve-root.
That won’t crash your kernel, and I was more curious about the OPs example. Task management is basically reading some files, and sending signals, it should be near impossible to crash the system.
I believe it does crash the system eventually as important buts start to go missing?
What language were you using?
Python maybe? I don’t know of any other interpreted language, that you may be calling system commands from, without saving to disk
I use C and C++ and my IDEs save to disk before compiling. Makes sense to not try compiling when there are potentially 2 versions (one on RAM or /tmp and one on Disk) and the build system might be running multiple commands, which the IDE may/may not know of, in my case.
