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diff --git a/sysutils/crashme/DESCR b/sysutils/crashme/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..c1510c84687 --- /dev/null +++ b/sysutils/crashme/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +A bit of background on crashme. It is a tool for testing the robustness +of an operating environment using a technique of "Random Input" response +analysis. This I first saw formally proposed in the book Cybernetics +by Norbert Wiener, but which any parent who has observed his children +playing and learning would be well disposed to describe in detail. + +* The operating environment under consideration is the user-mode process. + +* The Random Input is provided by the execution of a sequence of pseudo-random + data as an instruction stream. + +* The response analysis is to catch and record machine and software + generated exceptions/errors/signals and to retry using new random data + in both the current user-mode process and in newly created subprocesses. + +Crashme: (c) Copyright 1990, 1991 George J. Carrette |