From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Boeing 787 integer overflow
Date: Sun, 03 May 2015 19:34:58 -0400
Date: 2015-05-03T19:34:58-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1vbdka5a8rqlm8vimai2egm5v1m133pobg@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: alpine.CYG.2.11.1505031156210.3716@WIL414CHAPIN.vtc.vsc.edu
On Sun, 3 May 2015 12:03:51 -0400, Peter Chapin <PChapin@vtc.vsc.edu>
declaimed the following:
>I guess it depends on if there is a *requirement* to reboot the system
>periodically (less than 8 months) in the maintenance plan. The matter
>should be handled somewhere and it seems like it wasn't. In other words it
>was just "luck" that these systems have been getting restarted frequently
>enough.
>
Also depends upon just what "reboot" means in this environment... If
this is some sort of elapsed time counter, then it is something saved in
flash memory and will survive a normal power-cycle operation.
"Reboot" in this case may mean erasing and reloading the operational
flight program, databases, and other stuff in "permanent" memory.
--
Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN
wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-03 23:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-02 23:34 Boeing 787 integer overflow Robert Love
2015-05-03 11:23 ` Maciej Sobczak
2015-05-03 15:27 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-05-03 16:03 ` Peter Chapin
2015-05-03 23:34 ` Dennis Lee Bieber [this message]
2015-05-04 0:00 ` robin.vowels
2015-05-04 0:38 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-05-04 1:55 ` robin.vowels
2015-05-03 23:54 ` robin.vowels
2015-05-04 8:28 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-05-04 8:45 ` robin.vowels
2015-05-04 11:26 ` G.B.
2015-05-04 12:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-05-04 12:53 ` G.B.
2015-05-04 13:28 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2015-05-03 23:49 ` robin.vowels
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