On 12/13/05, Bruno Carnazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd like to know if there is a way to deeply test a POSIX operating
> system, and especially OpenBSD. The goal is to estimate the platform
> stability (performance estimation is not required). Tests should
> covert POSIX syscalls, OpenBSD specifics (drivers, etc...). For
> example, I have at home an old computer running OpenBSD 3.8 with
> in-kernel PPPoE that crashed recently : how can I dump the content of
> 'trace' and 'ps' in this case ? How can I know the origin of the
> problem (I suspect the kernel pppoe driver) ?

if finding the cause of a crash were as simple as putting the kernel
into the "crash finder" there would be a lot fewer bugs.

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