instability in Berkeley versus AT&T releases

[Jim Gettys]

In article <2453 at sun.uucp> guy at sun.uucp (Guy Harris) writes:
>...................................................... My
>machine is supplied by a "commercial vendor of 4.2BSD systems" (as is
>John's, I suspect :-) :-) :-)), and, well,
>
>	4:00pm  up 5 days,  2:33,  6 users,  load average: 0.23, 0.07, 0.00
>
>It's been up longer.  The only times it's crashed due to an OS bug are a few
>times when some pre-release software hung and it had to be rebooted (that
>problem hasn't recurred, and it wasn't the 4.2BSD base's fault) and once
>when it crashed due to some code I'd added (which, for the benefit of those
>of you who sneer at "lint", would have been reported by "lint"ing the
>kernel). ..................

I have seen an amusing bug in ruptime on our machines here (running a
"not commercially supported" version of 4.2).

mit-zeus    up  ??+17:42,     0 users,  load 0.01, 0.03, 0.03

This occurs if a machine has been up more than 99 days......
Several other machines on that local net had been up over 80 days, so
it was not a fluke.  Unfortunately, we had a power failure at 111 days.
Sigh....  I suppose we should all get up on our high horses and swear
at Berkeley for "buggy" software, but I for one am willing to forgive
them for this particular bug.

			Jim Gettys
			Project Athena