[MPlayer-users] Total Freeze of Mplayer with one movie

[RC]

On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 08:59:20 +0800
Uwe Dippel <udippel at uniten.edu.my> wrote:

> > If you're not running MPlayer as root, there's no way it can
> > possibly freeze the system...  it has to be the result of a bug in
> > the kernel
> 
> the standard kernel of Sarge ?
> ,
> > X11
> 
> the standard X11 ?

Bugs in both are common.  

And the point remains, there's nothing a user-level program can ever
possibly do to freeze up your whole system.