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A bit of background on crashme. It is a tool for testing the robustness
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of an operating environment using a technique of "Random Input" response
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analysis. This I first saw formally proposed in the book Cybernetics
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by Norbert Wiener, but which any parent who has observed his children
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playing and learning would be well disposed to describe in detail.
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* The operating environment under consideration is the user-mode process.
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* The Random Input is provided by the execution of a sequence of pseudo-random
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data as an instruction stream.
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* The response analysis is to catch and record machine and software
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generated exceptions/errors/signals and to retry using new random data
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in both the current user-mode process and in newly created subprocesses.
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Crashme: (c) Copyright 1990, 1991 George J. Carrette
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