head -c 32 /dev/socksys caused panic?

From: A Fortunate K-9 (a42n8k9at_private)
Date: Mon Nov 02 1998 - 20:19:30 PST

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Greets,

I was experimenting with different sources of random data when I ran the
following command "head -c 32 /dev/socksys" only to find my system go into
a complete panic, crash, and reboot.  I should note that I was logged in as
an ordinary user, and the system is Slackware 2.0.34.

Has anyone else heard of something like this?

Cheers,
        a42n8k9

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