Hi Thalib,
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:56 PM, H M Thalib <hmtha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mulyadi Santosa wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:54 PM, H M Thalib<hmtha...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I want to test my kernel for stability. Can you help me in artificially >>> simulating the kernel crash, kernel panic scenarios. Is there any >>> standard way to simulate it. maybe by running applications, scripts. but >>> I dont want to modify anything in the kernel space. >>> >> >> Try to study fault-injection. It's documented in >> Documentation/fault-injection.txt inside kernel source tree. Never use >> it 'til now, so I only can give you a clue. >> >> > Thanks - > > But this steps involves in kernel space, > > I am looking for producing kernel panic/crash/hang by running some > script/application in user space - Is there any tool/standard defined way to > do that > > Why do you feel that you would be able to achieve this? Don't you think that such scripts would then we used as a malware. I think in order to have such a protection we have a user space and a kernel space. You can panic/hang user space processes using user space programs unless you have a loop hole in the kernel implementation. Which no one will put intentionally. > > Thanks > Thalib > Regards, Sandeep. “To learn is to change. Education is a process that changes the learner.” > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with > "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecar...@nl.linux.org > Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ > >
