Easily Caused Kernel Panic Mac OS X 10.2.2

[kendall]

As seen on Slashdot,

shibby tells us that it is easy to cause a kernel panic in Mac OS X 10.2.2, by attempting to move a directory into the same location as another one of the same name, using Terminal: mkdir ~/mydir; cd ~/mydir; mkdir mydir; mv mydir ... Kernel panic is instant. Save all your documents and quit your open apps if you feel the need to see it for yourself. Happy Thanksgiving!

I don't really want to try this to verify if its true or not. Does anyone else? Might be a good chance to try out the Journaling capabilities of 10.2.2.

[stealth]

im not willing to verify this as well... maybe some1 else will be brave enough to try it.. what id like to know is if anyone can explain what JOURNALING CAPABILITIES are (or maybe a certain link that i can read.) ??? .. thanx

[fryke]

http://mac.fryke.com/cgi-bin/blosxom...ournal20021116

[Ricky]

No kernal panic for me when I followed those commands...

usage: mv [-fi] source target
       mv [-fi] source ... directory

[Ricky]

Whoops! Just returned from a kernel panic. The correct code for this is:

mkdir ~/mydir
cd ~/mydir
mkdir mydir
mv mydir ~/

WARNING: Dangerous if you don't know what you're doing.

[kendall]

Ricky is most brave. Thanks for taking one for the team!

[fryke]

you see what the actual problem is? you're removing your current working directory's path. want to try what happens when you do this? is it the same? (i don't want to...):

mkdir ~/mydir
cd ~/mydir
rm -rf ~/mydir

[kendall]

"mv -i" is my friend