I assure you that a root privileged program can crash _ANY_ Unix
OS. Remember that root can access any hardware without restriction.
This includes timers, interrupts, IO ports, memory, all kinds of stuff.
There is typically a bit of a procedure to do it, but it is allowed.
> Besides, my system crashes with crashme running from non-
> privileged user account...
That is a legitimate complaint and completely different from running
crashme as root.
> --
> Best regards, -- Boris.
Cheers!
Ty