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Date:      Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:47:49 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <TrimYourCc@NUXI.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: if_fxp - the real point
Message-ID:  <20010314104748.A31046@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010314090915.D29888@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 09:09:15AM -0800
References:  <200103092332.f29NW4785782@gollum.esys.ca> <20010309221250.2384337B71B@hub.freebsd.org> <200103092332.f29NW4785782@gollum.esys.ca> <20010314123503.C74704@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <5.0.0.25.0.20010314110743.02373a00@mail.etinc.com> <20010314090915.D29888@fw.wintelcom.net>

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On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 09:09:15AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> how many times does windows crash because of poorly written drivers
> rather than flaws in the core OS? (*)

ALL the time.  Microsoft has given the UC-Davis security and formal
verification lab a multi-year grant to look at this problem.
(the approach being researched is "model checking")

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
          GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX

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