Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:28:15 +0000 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: "Nils Holland" <nh@tisys.org> Cc: David DEMELIER <demelier.david@gmail.com>, "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why panic(9) ? Message-ID: <20110112172815.000072d8@unknown> In-Reply-To: <EDA4E84D0FDD44908E07588CB8BE187C@Nemesis> References: <AANLkTi=OQbS-0jJx0YwZhM7xDWPLOkaYYZAYfESUEvvM@mail.gmail.com> <CB13B0A9-E5EF-4351-9F17-C4628AA38004@mac.com> <AANLkTikP%2BxuPpVOxhU2msHHraRQRSUCqjG59S_Ss6pQ=@mail.gmail.com> <AF555A64-C04E-420A-9A2B-2C9AECF17BA1@mac.com> <AANLkTi=2Wo%2BRjyDrVRfCwyZYAprKe7U8k-DmwiVu0cM4@mail.gmail.com> <EDA4E84D0FDD44908E07588CB8BE187C@Nemesis>
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On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:43:10 +0100 "Nils Holland" <nh@tisys.org> wrote: > Having a job in which I have to support people working on Windows, I > can say for sure that there's no such thing in Windows that prevents > third-party system level stuff to bring down the system. ;-) In Windows there's a tool that runs when you build a driver called Microsoft Auto Code Review that checks for things like buffer overflows etc. One thing it flags is if your driver calls KeBugCheckEx and warns that it's normally better to log the error and stop processing data instead of bringing the system down. I always get that warning because my driver was ported from FreeBSD, including a panic() function. -- Bruce Cran
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