From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 09:07:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 09:07:41 -0500 Received: from relay04.valueweb.net ([216.219.253.238]:41154 "EHLO relay04.valueweb.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 09:07:39 -0500 Message-ID: <3E80652D.8080300@coyotegulch.com> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 09:18:21 -0500 From: Scott Robert Ladd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030319 Debian/1.3-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Engel?= CC: Craig Thomas , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Testing: What do you want? References: <3E7F1A2D.4050306@coyotegulch.com> <1048525274.25652.3.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <1048547186.495.43.camel@bullpen.pdx.osdl.net> <20030325001627.GC14469@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> In-Reply-To: <20030325001627.GC14469@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jörn Engel wrote: > And another thing I have found to be good at finding bugs is a sick > mind. If you intend to crash a system and do just about anything a > normal user wouldn't, you will stress all the code paths that are > usually not tested. I'll throw a couple big evolutionary simulations on one of my boxes, and see how Linux digests it. Lovely thing about stochastic code -- you never know what it might do. :) I could put my wife on Linux. She's a brilliant woman of great talent -- and, alas, she is endowed with an incredible ability to wreak unintentional destruction on technology. She has accomplished some truly remarkable feats of software implosion -- sometimes, without touching the keyboard! Let's put it this way: She got *really* angry at me once, and all of my systems (Linboxen included) REBOOTED spontaneously in reaction to her outburst! Now that's what *I* call "stressing" the code! -- Scott Robert Ladd Coyote Gulch Productions (http://www.coyotegulch.com) Professional programming for science and engineering; Interesting and unusual bits of very free code.