Re: why panic(9) ?

From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-current-local_at_be-well.ilk.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:05:38 -0500
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Boris Kochergin <spawk_at_acm.poly.edu> writes:

> All modern operating systems? Maybe some niche ones, like the ones
> that run on Mars rovers, have made progress towards formal
> verification and are believed not to crash given correctly-functioning
> hardware.

The Mars rovers run on VxWorks.  Which is a system I like, but it
isn't anything like formally verifiable.  And it certainly does the
equivalent of FreeBSD panic() under some circumstances.  
Received on Tue Jan 11 2011 - 21:32:19 UTC

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