Re: Kernel magic numbers

Riley Williams (rhw@bigfoot.com)
Mon, 4 Jan 1999 23:50:34 +0000 (GMT)


Hi Bob.

> You have to be kidding. this is hilarious. What are you guys
> smoking anyway?

>> BUFPAGE_MAGIC 0xBADC0DEDDEADBABE
>> LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC1 0xFEE1DEAD
>> MKCTL_MAGIC 0xDEADBABEBADC0DED
>> SMB_DEBUG_MAGIC 0xFEEDDEAD
>> SOLARIS_SOCKET_MAGIC 0xADDED
>> STACK_MAGIC 0xDEADBEEF
>> SUN_LABEL_MAGIC 0xDABE
>> UNIXWARE_DISKMAGIC 0xCA5E600D

They're all genuine - and I don't smoke anything, not even chocolate
cigarettes...

Also in that list are several whose hex version can be decoded as a
valid date, and some of that group are famous...

Best wishes from Riley.

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