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.
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