> No, userland tools should never be able to crash the kernel (other
> than root deliberately scribbling in kmem or something similar).

I once tried to define what it is about things like
	dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mem
that exempt them from the "userland should never be able to crash the
kernel" dictum.  I never really got anywhere.  Any thoughts?

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