Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Apr 1997 23:09:36 -0500 (CDT) | From | Oliver Xymoron <> | Subject | Re: Re[2]: Kernel testing |
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On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Systemkennung Linux wrote:
> Timings and race conditions are difficult to test. Another problem is > that we'll hardly will be able to cover all the possible cases. If > you try to check for things like for example the handling of hardware > errors (r/w errors on disks, ...) you'll have to add special code to > "inject" errors.
This is a possibility - you can do some wonderfully wicked things with modules. We could write a generic script to generate and compile a module to exercise a given internal kernel function if we decide we need that level of testing.
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