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In one configuration, what I "churned" was the mount/umount system calls (used to attach new disks to the system). I discovered a race where badly-timed sequences of mounts in a short time would crash the system.
Tempers were somewhat frayed by that time in the project, as I recall, and I got dressed down by what we'd today call the CTO for filing stupid bugs: no actual user would ever have that pattern of behavior.
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Later, a crash bug was reported from the field. It turns out its fix also fixed my bug. (So, if my report had led to a fix rather than a dressing-down, a customer would have been spared that crash – we had many fewer customers than a typical OS today, so crashes mattered more.)
@marick Seems like a classic case of “we don’t pay all these people all this money to give us bad news!”
I am sorry to report that it’s still going strong.
by samir, hibernating ;
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