Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:51:14 -0500 From: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: if_fxp - the real point Message-ID: <5.0.0.25.0.20010314165014.03dcb7b0@mail.etinc.com> In-Reply-To: <20010314104748.A31046@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20010314090915.D29888@fw.wintelcom.net> <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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At 01:47 PM 03/14/2001, you wrote: >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") Why would they need to do that? Every time you load a program it updates the libraries, breaking older programs. Its a philosophical problem. You dont need a grant to figure it out. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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