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Fun command to use:

reboot -f

Crashed Firefox portable 4.0.1 for me. What's the intended result?

Iirc the way to reboot an x86 machine is to triple-fault, i.e. execute an interrupt in an interrupt in an interrupt. Could be done by e.g. marking the pagefault handler's stack space as "not available" in the pagetables.

Now if the virtual cpu does not implement that reboot behaviour, the likely result is just an endless recursion of fault handlers. So the script runs an endless loop, hanging Firefox until it notices this and stops it.

argggggg Might have been an interesting way to proceed because of various weird reasons 15 or 20 yeats ago, but current x86 plateforms are not that convoluted (for at least 10 years). Just outw (or is it outb? don't remember) the correct value to port 0cf9h (which btw has nothing to do with the legacy PCI conf addr register, which is 32 bits starting at io port 0cf8h for great confusion...) and your computer reboot.

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