Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 15:59:25 -0600 From: Tony Kimball <alk@Think.COM> To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: random traps Message-ID: <199603312159.PAA26843@compound>
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I once had a program which might do the stability of FreeBSD a world of good, if applied in earnest. That program generated random syscalls. It would reliably crash Ultrix or SunOS 4.0.x or 4.1.[01] within 5-50 seconds (depending on the OS more strongly than chance:-), but it would run forever under SunOS 4.1.[23] (or more precisely would run repeatedly ad nauseam without crashing the box). I haven't tried it in a few years, on more modern systems, but the degree of resistance to this abuse was at the time almost perfectly correlative to my intuitive notion of OS quality. So... I wonder whether the intuitive quality of FreeBSD might not be given a hand up by such a treatment... Just a thought. //alk
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