Silly Kernel Panic in Mac OS X 10.2.2

shibby tells us that it is easy to cause a kernel panic in Mac OS X 10.2.2, by attempting to move a directory into the same location as another one of the same name, using Terminal: mkdir ~/mydir; cd ~/mydir; mkdir mydir; mv mydir ... Kernel panic is instant. Save all your documents and quit your open apps if you feel the need to see it for yourself. Happy Thanksgiving!

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Apple has a bug. This is amazing news.

I'd say it's pretty notable. Apple's never been noted for particularly buggy code, though OS X has had a fairly nasty number of things like kernel oopses since its introduction. So while it's not *that* out of line for issues to pop up in a youthful OS, the amazing thing is that this didn't show up before. /me thinks Apple would have been better using someone else's kernel -- like the FreeBSD one -- verbatim instead of trying to hack up that Mach POS (which I've heard nothing but bad things about from OS people up at Carnegie Mellon, where Mach was developed). They could still have plopped Carbon and Quartz and all their other goodies on top.

Of course, I certainly could be missing something -- could be that the FBSD kernel just didn't do something that Apple had to have it do, and that the FBSD people wouldn't have accepted. Could be SMP issues, I suppose...