“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”

Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by GoblinSlayer on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @08:10AM (#26888544)

Forking the kernel should be sufficient for research.

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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by hjalle on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @08:20AM (#26888633)

Not if the research involves the reviewing aspects of open source projects.

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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by hellow0rldz on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @04:18PM (#26894892)

Apparently they aren't doing human experiments, it's only processes and such. So they can easily emulate the processes in-house too!

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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by jaywalk on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @08:32AM (#26888776)

This research is specifically about getting patches accepted into open source projects, so that wouldn't work at all.

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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by GoblinSlayer on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @09:31AM (#26889419)

For other research happening in the university. This particular research is trivial anyway, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26888417

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