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On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 17:00:09 -0800 (PST), Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote: >The Mars Pathfinder is just about the worst case "real system", and if I >recall correctly, the reason it was able to continue was _not_ because it >handled priority inversion, but because it reset itself every 24 hours or >something like that, and had debugging facilities.. >... >So put a watchdog on your critical systems, and make sure you can debug >them. Especially if they're on Mars. Who are you and what have you done with the real[1] Linus "I'm a sick and twisted person, and I trust people who write code without debuggers a lot more than I trust those who don't" Torvalds :-) [1] http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9510/0103.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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