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Date:      Sat, 5 Mar 2005 01:45:16 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Cc:        David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_sig.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1050305014430.12299C-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <42276DB6.8030701@root.org>

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On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Nate Lawson wrote:

> That was me.  At work, we've done a lot of intentional fault injection
> in software we were evaluating and this kind of thing is very helpful.
> Note also silby@'s work in extremely pessimizing fragmentation to work
> out bugs in our reassembly code. 

I haven't used it lately, but MALLOC_MAKE_FAIL is also quite useful for
finding bugs in kernel code that makes incorrect assumptions about return
values with M_NOWAIT.  We need something similar for UMA.

Robert N M Watson



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