sewilco@mecc.UUCP (01/26/87)
Canonical List of Pop Bug Names, Lug Edition.
Unattributed bugs installed by Scot Wilcoxon (sewilco@mecc.com)
Bohrbugs - (Niels Bohr) Repeatable failures even when retried on another
processor [JG]
Doug - (Doug McIlroy) Caused by patches to the live image of a running
program [PGN]
Douglass
Heisenbugs - Transient failure conditions that exist within systems
(ie, getting a locked resource from a backup processor) [JG]
Huggins - (Sir Williams Huggins) Bug which can be classified from a distance
(ie, networked mailer bug)
Sluggo
aug - Bug induced while augmenting a system [RGE]
auger - Security hole opened by an aug
bedbug - Due to a design or code conceived at the edge of consciousness
bug - An unclassifiable bug.
bugaboo - Startling but harmless behavior (ie, flashing due to CRT state)
bugbear - see "bugaboo"
bugeyed - Programmer can't see bugs due to debugging too long
centrifugal - Spins off much junk (ie, processes, files, network requests)
chugalug - Causes input data to be lost]
conjugate - A bug due to two or more flaws interacting, particularly in
different routines
corrugate - Only visible when incremented with some values
drug - Bug which put the system to sleep whilst it still appears to be working
or, conversely, make it hyperactive [RS]
drug - Unwanted features that contaminate specs; something the cat drug in [D]
dug - Added while fixing other bugs, digging the hole deeper [RGE]
dug - Documentation bug [TP]
dugout - Bug which keeps a system/program afloat (see also plug [TP])
eugenic - Relating to bugs in program generators
firebug - Destructive problem caused by a vandal. A vandal.
fug - A bug which obscures others and make debugging particularly difficult [RS]
fug - Bug that causes you to give up (fug it) [TP]
hug - Gives rise to a deadly embrace [RS][TP]
humbug - see "smug"[RS]
jitterbug - Causes excessive movement of data
jug - Portable bugs, bottled and bonded [RGE]
jug - Bug that can get you jailed, such as penetrating security [TP]
jugate - see "conjugate"
juggernaut - Bug which ties up or destroys most of a resource
juggle - Caused by trying to have one program fragment do many things
jugular - A bottleneck often threatened by bugs
litterbug - Storage management problem
lug - Bug which slows down the system (e.g., security features) [RGE]
lug - Not correctly releasing unused storage
lug - Big, lovable bug (e.g., Unix) [TP]
luggage - Storage which is no longer needed and has not been released
lugger - A small dugout
lugging - What a program with luggage is doing
mug - Bug which can be used for theft
mug - Only noticeable in front of a crowd (either viewers or users)
mug - Bug that drives you to drink [TP]
muggy
mugshot - (in unison) Snapshot of a mug
mugwump - Bug in a voting algorithm
nug - Little "nugget" of gold, which didn't pan out [RGE]
nugget - see "nug"
plug - Unwanted trash that contaminates output, particularly to a pipe [D]
plug - Bug that keeps a system going [TP]
plug,ear - Earplug - An intentional plug installed to stop complaints
pug - Generic term for a bug due to creative combination of hard/software [RS]
pug - Bug that makes you want to go in the boxing ring with its author [TP]
qug - Errors in queue handling [RGE]
repugnant
rug - A bug evenly distributed throughout the code, and pervasive [RGE]
rug - A bug which will require many small changes to fix
rug - Bug that knocks the system flat [TP]
shrug - Tiresome, but intrepid user can dismiss it as of no consequence [RS]
skullduggery
slug - Bug that slows everything down, leaves a trail of slime, and eats up
your lettuce [TP]
slug - Low-level bugs (like viruses?) that move slowly from one place to
another, especially in systems having no shell [PGN]
smug - A bug in a program written by a person who claims to write bug-free
programs [RS]
smug - Bug you can't find [TP]
smuggle
snug - Bug that you put in for job security [TP]
struggle
suggestive
thug - Waylays unsuspecting computer users and beat them into the ground [RS]
tug - Little interface which keeps big system in tow [RGE]
tug - Bug that you can't forget, no matter how many years ago it was [TP]
ugh
ugly
xug - Alien bug (ie, Email penetration of a system) [RGE]
[D] - doug%btl.csnet@relay.cs.NET in RISKS DIGEST 4.30
[JG] - Jim Gray of Tandem (reported by Jonathan Clark @ mtune.UUCP in RISKS
DIGEST 4.30)
[PGN] - Peter G. Neumann, Moderator of RISKS DIGEST
[RGE] - Robert G. Estell (estell@nwc-143b.ARPA) in RISKS DIGEST 4.30
[RS] - Reffin Smith from "Science*Art"
[TP] Tom Parmenter <parmenter@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> in RISKS
DIGEST 4.34
Several likely bug names are listed and awaiting a good definition.
Suggestions for "Sluggo" involving bent metal are eagerly awaited.
This list does not include the possibilities opened by altering the "-er"
suffix and its meanings to "-err". For example, the bugs caused by improper
coding of a loop which increments through a range of numbers could be
"looperr" or "incrementerr" bugs. Isn't American wonderful?
A formalized list of types of bugs would probably be a list of everything
an algorithm and program generator should not do, as well as all possible
hardware problems and space/time improbabilities.
--
Scot E. Wilcoxon Minn Ed Comp Corp {quest,dayton,meccts}!mecc!sewilco
(612)481-3507 sewilco@MECC.COM ihnp4!meccts!mecc!sewilco
"Who's that lurking over there? Is that Merv Griffin?"allbery@ncoast.UUCP (01/31/87)
As quoted from <860@mecc.MECC.COM> by sewilco@mecc.MECC.COM (Scot E. Wilcoxon): +--------------- | Suggestions for "Sluggo" involving bent metal are eagerly awaited. +--------------- sluggo -- a bug in a disk head park algorithm that causes the computer to bash the disk head against the stop until it breaks off. (This happened with one release of Tandy Xenix 2.x. I kid you not!) ++Brandon -- ++Brandon (Resident Elf @ ncoast.UUCP) ____ ______________ / \ / __ __ __ \ Brandon S. Allbery <backbone>!ncoast!allbery ___ | /__> / \ / \ aXcess Co., Consulting ncoast!allbery@Case.CSNET / \ | | `--, `--, 6615 Center St. #A1-105 (...@relay.CS.NET) | | \__/ \__/ \__/ Mentor, OH 44060-4101 \____/ \______________/ +1 216 781 6201