Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 23:07:57 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMPNG kernel on UP Message-ID: <59168.968965677@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:46:44 MDT." <200009141946.NAA98535@harmony.village.org>
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In message <200009141946.NAA98535@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes: >In message <200009141941.MAA86101@pike.osd.bsdi.com> John Baldwin writes: >: Warner Losh wrote: >: > In message <200009141928.MAA85518@pike.osd.bsdi.com> John Baldwin writes: >: > : It may be a kernel/world sync problem. Although I don't know why the ioctl >: > : argument would suddenly become invalid. Maybe it passes in a struct ucred, >: > : which changed in size just before the SMPng commit? >: > >: > I don't know either. However, it might be because of permission >: > problems. It will return EINVAL when it can't open the apm file for >: > write. Maybe a devfs related issue? >: >: Hmm, it may not be using the right perms during make_dev perhaps. > >Hmmm, they look good to me. Maybe Mark's system doesn't have group >operator at gid 5. That's one bad thing about the new DEVFS: it >appears to enshrine things like this in the kernel... Yes, this is a bad thing, but it is the best compromise solution. You can either manually or with a future general devd(8) fix this. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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