From: jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid) Subject: Re: possible bug in mount() Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1993 04:05:33 GMT
In article <1993Apr18.014322.3720@kf8nh.wariat.org> bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
> I've seen programs which scramble their own memory and then execute it
>(jump through an NFG function pointer) crash systems in the past, and there is
>even a program available which deliberately tries to do that to test the
>resilience of a kernel. (I hear that most commercial *ixes fail the test....)
This reminded me of an article I saved a long time ago... It is included
for hysterical interest....
jem.
(who is a hopeless packrat)
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From: scot@catzen.GUN.de (Scot W. Stevenson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Crashme and Linux
Message-ID: <qSO1Dd53V1o@catzen.GUN.de>
Date: 28 Jun 1992 20:29:04 GMT
Reply-To: scot@catzen.GUN.de
Organization: Interactive!
Hi,
The German computer magazine iX has an article on the crashme program
used to test (well, hopefully) the stability of Unix systems. Of the
20 tested systems, only three didn't crash: Esix V4.0.3, Sun SPARC
as of OS 4.1.2, and - Linux V0.95 =8). The list of those who bit the
cybernetic dust includes names like Coherent, AIX, Ultrix...
Nice work, Linus =8)!
T, Scot
[Source: 'Weichmacher - crashme fuer Unix-Systeme', Thomas Neser, iX Juli (7)
1992, pp. 88]