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- From: albert@cs.uq.oz.au (Albert Ng)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.mach
- Subject: Re: Partial failure ?
- Message-ID: <9858@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 00:50:39 GMT
- References: <9778@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <TIR.92Aug17093944@vipunen.hut.fi>
- Sender: news@cs.uq.oz.au
- Reply-To: albert@cs.uq.oz.au
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- In <TIR.92Aug17093944@vipunen.hut.fi> tir@vipunen.hut.fi (Timo Riikonen) writes:
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- >Wai> Question:
- >Wai> Does MACH support system partial failures at all?
- >Wai> If it does, then HOW did it handle it?
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- >Yes it does. For example if DOS does some "incorrect" interruption,
- >the system falls to the ddb debugger. The same is true with many Mach
- >and UNIX problems.
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- >You can test ddb by pressing Ctrl-Alt-D (returning with cont) and read
- >about it with man ddb.
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- Just to confirm, DOS as in ms-dos or do you mean Distributed OS?
- And I think what Wai meant of partial failure is on the H/W side,
- not with the OS which seems to be what you are refering to!
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- So say the CPU blows up or the communication line gets cut off.
-
- Albert
- BIT Hons
- UofQ
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