Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 19:35:21 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Gustavo V G C Rios <kernel@lince.tdnet.com.br>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is traditional unixes kernel really stable ? Message-ID: <20000406193521.P22104@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200004070156.SAA92728@apollo.backplane.com>; from dillon@apollo.backplane.com on Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 06:56:19PM -0700 References: <38ED128C.22C3AA28@tdnet.com.br> <200004070156.SAA92728@apollo.backplane.com>
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* Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> [000406 19:24] wrote: > :Considering the current kernel design approach used by traditional > :system, what happens if a drive were wrongly coded ? > : > :Would the entiry system crash ? > > Yes. Yes, but assuming he means driver just about any wrongly coded driver under any OS has the potential to lock up or crash the entire system, I'm pretty sure I read that incorrect accesses to some devices may cause them to wedge system busses, at that point there's not much one can do besideds panic. So it's not just unix. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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