Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 01:25:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Johann Visagie <johann@egenetics.com>, Freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Subject: Re: corporate announcement Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010406012504.46990H-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010405160153.00e5b4d0@localhost>
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On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Brett Glass wrote: > At 11:45 AM 4/5/2001, John Baldwin wrote: > > >The pathfinder ran on a version of VxWorks. > > Yes. Though it was reported at the time that the system was unstable and > had to be rebooted by a watchdog timer at regular intervals. > Fortunately, the embedded system designers who created the probe were > smart enough to build one in. My understanding is that that was a result of an application bug rather than the OS, and had to do with a priority inversion. However, the article I read is pretty distant in my memory, so some references would no doubt be useful. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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