On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 17:00:09 -0800 (PST), Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The Mars Pathfinder is just about the worst case "real system", and if I >recall correctly, the reason it was able to continue was _not_ because it >handled priority inversion, but because it reset itself every 24 hours or >something like that, and had debugging facilities.. >... >So put a watchdog on your critical systems, and make sure you can debug >them. Especially if they're on Mars.
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