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From: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Who did it!
Keywords: Crash, GURU, Alert
Message-ID: <183@snll-arpagw.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jun 88 01:50:48 GMT
References: <180@snll-arpagw.UUCP> <4022@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci)
Organization: Sandia National Labs, Livermore
Lines: 36

In article <4022@cbmvax.UUCP> carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS) writes:
>In article <180@snll-arpagw.UUCP> paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) writes:
>>I have a suggestion.... []                      ...  I don't know if
>>this is doable, since I haven't given it a lot of thought, but what we
>>need is a utility that sits in the background and points a finger (via
>>a requester) at the software that was responsible for the crash.  I
>>would bet that a lot of COMMERCIAL software would get cleaned up
>>really fast due to customer pressure, and poor public domain software
>>would not get used.  The point here is that if we know which software
>>is bad we won't use it.
>
>This is not possible.  A badly written program can trash some other
>program's memory.  So some other program's task ends up with an address
>error, etc. because its code or data was trashed.  No way to tell which 
>task DID the trashing.
>

True.  But in many cases the program may not trash other tasks and in
this case you know who the culprit is.  Furthermore, I am not
suggesting that just because this happens once, that the particular
task pointed to should be immediately blamed.  However this makes
the task suspicious, and if this task keeps being pointed at with
a different mix of jobs, that there is a very strong indication that
IT is responsible.  Don't you agree?

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