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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) A program crashed my iMac so bad that it could not start up. Post 302448712 by Corona688 on Thursday 26th of August 2010 06:21:03 PM
Old 08-26-2010
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Originally Posted by ASL123
The harddrive was not damaged.
And they tested this how?
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In fact it is quite new (< year).
That doesn't mean anything. I and others have had drives that were faulty straight out of the package.
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My purpose for posting this thread, was solely to see if someone could verify that it is not possible for a program (when crashing) to damage the UNIX installation.

I am not an UNIX expert myself, but I know that UNIX is regarded as a secure operating system.
OSX's boot files are quite well protected, a user-mode program wouldn't have the ability to trash any of them without jumping through several hoops and requiring administrator passwords. I think the game crashing was a symptom, rather than the cause. A crash inside a driver could do this, though.
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AIRY(3) 						User Contributed Perl Documentation						   AIRY(3)

NAME
PDL::GSLSF::AIRY - PDL interface to GSL Special Functions DESCRIPTION
This is an interface to the Special Function package present in the GNU Scientific Library. SYNOPSIS
Functions FUNCTIONS
gsl_sf_airy_Ai Signature: (double x(); double [o]y(); double [o]e()) Airy Function Ai(x). gsl_sf_airy_Ai does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_airy_Bi Signature: (double x(); double [o]y(); double [o]e()) Airy Function Bi(x). gsl_sf_airy_Bi does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_airy_Ai_scaled Signature: (double x(); double [o]y(); double [o]e()) Scaled Airy Function Ai(x). Ai(x) for x < 0 and exp(+2/3 x^{3/2}) Ai(x) for x > 0. gsl_sf_airy_Ai_scaled does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_airy_Bi_scaled Signature: (double x(); double [o]y(); double [o]e()) Scaled Airy Function Bi(x). Bi(x) for x < 0 and exp(+2/3 x^{3/2}) Bi(x) for x > 0. gsl_sf_airy_Bi_scaled does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_airy_Ai_deriv Signature: (double x(); double [o]y(); double [o]e()) Derivative Airy Function Ai`(x). gsl_sf_airy_Ai_deriv does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_airy_Bi_deriv Signature: (double x(); double [o]y(); double [o]e()) Derivative Airy Function Bi`(x). gsl_sf_airy_Bi_deriv does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_airy_Ai_deriv_scaled Signature: (double x(); double [o]y(); double [o]e()) Derivative Scaled Airy Function Ai(x). Ai`(x) for x < 0 and exp(+2/3 x^{3/2}) Ai`(x) for x > 0. gsl_sf_airy_Ai_deriv_scaled does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_airy_Bi_deriv_scaled Signature: (double x(); double [o]y(); double [o]e()) Derivative Scaled Airy Function Bi(x). Bi`(x) for x < 0 and exp(+2/3 x^{3/2}) Bi`(x) for x > 0. gsl_sf_airy_Bi_deriv_scaled does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. AUTHOR
This file copyright (C) 1999 Christian Pellegrin <chri@infis.univ.trieste.it> All rights reserved. There is no warranty. You are allowed to redistribute this software / documentation under certain conditions. For details, see the file COPYING in the PDL distribution. If this file is separated from the PDL distribution, the copyright notice should be included in the file. The GSL SF modules were written by G. Jungman. perl v5.12.1 2010-07-05 AIRY(3)
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