Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Apr 1997 14:51:48 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Seth M. Landsman" <> | Subject | Re: Kernel testing |
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On 14 Apr 1997, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> > > Just a quick note. Most UNIX vendors have a directory full of stress > > test toys, each test is geared specifically towards a certain > > subsystem of the kernel. Essentially when you change stuff you go > > into there and say "If you dicked with the buffer cache, run one of > > test X Y or Z, if you changed the locking code in the networking run A > > or B" > > We could probably write our test suite of programs by making simple > small programs that get linked with the kernel object files and a set > of stub libraries. > > The stub libraries would just provide the missing functionality in the > kernel. > > The test suite then could actually stress test the kernel code without > even booting the kernel.
Exactly. It would save a whole lot of problems for many people if they could test the integrity of the kernel before they installed it. This wouldn't save everyone from installing a kernel that didn't boot, but it would save some ...
-Seth
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