COMMAND LINE OPTIONS

[NBYTES]

The [NBYTES] should be an integer, specifying the size of the random data string in bytes. If given negative then the bytes are printed instead of being executed. If given with an explicit plus sign then the storage for the bytes is freshly malloc'ed each time. This can have an effect on machines with seperate I and D cache mechanisms. The argument can also have a dot in it, X.Y, in which case Y is a increment for a pointer into the random data. The buffer is recalculated only when the pointer gets near the end of the data.

[SRAND]

The [SRAND] is an input seed to the random number generator, passed to srand.

[NTRIES]

The [NTRIES] is how many times to loop before exiting normally from the program.

[NSUB]

The [NSUB] is optional, the number of vfork subprocesses running all at once. If negative run one after another. If given as a time hrs:mns:scs (hours, minutes, seconds) then one subprocess will be run to completion, followed by another, until the time limit has been reached. If this argument is given as the empty string or . then it is ignored.

When in sequential-subprocess mode there is a 30 second time limit on each subprocess. This is to allow the instruction-set-space random walk to continue when a process bashes itself into an infinite loop. For example, the ntrys can be bashed to a very large number with nbytes bashed to zero. (10 second limit on Windows NT).

The SRAND argument is incremented by one for each subprocess.

[VERBOSE]

The [VERBOSE] arg is optional. 0 is the least verbose, 5 the most.