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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.


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