Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 23:52:30 +0000 From: Gustavo V G C Rios <kernel@tdnet.com.br> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is traditional unixes kernel really stable ? Message-ID: <38ED233E.74716D02@tdnet.com.br> References: <38ED128C.22C3AA28@tdnet.com.br> <20000406192206.N22104@fw.wintelcom.net>
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Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * Gustavo V G C Rios <kernel@tdnet.com.br> [000406 19:12] wrote: > > Considering the current kernel design approach used by traditional > > system, what happens if a drive were wrongly coded ? > > > > Would the entiry system crash ? > > please define "wrongly coded". Definition: the driver tries to access a memory outside its memory space. Worse yet: What about hardware buggy devices? This could case the entiry system to crash, isn't it ? -- If you're happy, you're successful. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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