[plug] Re: Leon's Sig Code
Leon Brooks
leon at brooks.fdns.net
Fri Mar 2 10:33:04 WST 2001
Steve Baker wrote:
>> // send the signal of 'SIGSTOP' to the process with the reason
>> // 'SIGBUS' (hardware failure or incorrect address)
>> kill(pid,random()&1?SIGSTOP:SIGBUS);
> Not quite. Get a random number, if it's odd send SIGSTOP signal, otherwise
> send the SIGBUS signal.
In other words, either freeze or cause a pretend buss-error for a random
process...
--
Me: "Uh... I think your disk has a bad sector."
User: "But it can't! It worked fine yesterday!"
Me: "Well, yes, things usually work fine before they break.
Otherwise they'd break sooner." -- jwgh
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