UNIX robustness
Steven M. Schultz
sms at moe.2bsd.com
Thu Jan 28 10:07:22 AEST 1999
Hi -
> From: Greg Lehey <grog at lemis.com>
>
> I think you'd have to consider a reboot to be a failure. Steveen
> could say better than I, but I'd expect 2.9BSD to have told you why it
> died. 2.11BSD certainly does.
Well, it tries its darndest to do so. If the system gets its
knickers sufficiently twisted I've seen it hang part way thru
printing the panic message. 'course then there are the self
inflicted crashes where an errant driver scribbles all over memory,
in which case you may not get a meaningful indication of what
went wrong ;)
Steven
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