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From: g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Subject: Re: Could the BSD 4.4 Lite be a new beginning?
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Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
References: <HSU.94Feb14043905@laphroaig.cs.hut.fi> <R60q1p-.dysonj@delphi.com> <g89r4222.761250723@kudu> <CL8Jyr.HA5@unccsun.uncc.edu>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 09:44:20 GMT
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In <CL8Jyr.HA5@unccsun.uncc.edu> jlrobins@unccsun.uncc.edu (James Lee Robinson) writes:
>OK -- I'll bite. What does `crashme' do, exactly? What about it is so
>"detremential" ?
From the crashme man page ;-) :
DESCRIPTION
crashme is a very simple program that tests the operating
environment's robustness by invoking random data as if it
were a procedure. The standard signals are caught and
handled with a setjmp back to a loop which will try again
to produce a fault by executing random data.
......
BUGS
Not all signals are caught, and the state of the user pro-
gram/process enviroment can be sufficiently damaged such
that the program terminates before going through all
[NTRIES] operations.
Beware: This program can crash your computer if the oper-
ating system or hardware of same is buggy. User data may
be lost.
AUTHOR
George J Carrette. GJC@MITECH.COM
;-)
Geoff
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