Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 10:18:00 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Tony Kimball <alk@Think.COM> Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: random traps Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960401101649.16407A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <199603312159.PAA26843@compound>
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Eat good food, preserve nature, be nice to all nice people :) On Sun, 31 Mar 1996, Tony Kimball wrote: > > I once had a program which might do the stability of FreeBSD a world > of good, if applied in earnest. That program generated random > syscalls. It would reliably crash Ultrix or SunOS 4.0.x or 4.1.[01] > within 5-50 seconds (depending on the OS more strongly than chance:-), > but it would run forever under SunOS 4.1.[23] (or more precisely would > run repeatedly ad nauseam without crashing the box). I haven't tried > it in a few years, on more modern systems, but the degree of > resistance to this abuse was at the time almost perfectly correlative > to my intuitive notion of OS quality. So... I wonder whether the > intuitive quality of FreeBSD might not be given a hand up by such a > treatment... What became of it? I would appreciate having a copy... (to test FreeBSD with it, among the other things) > > Just a thought. > > //alk > > Sander
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