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Date:      Sat, 23 Dec 2000 00:00:21 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
To:        Assar Westerlund <assar@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        mjacob@feral.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: is it possible to have a NULL procp for an NFS request?
Message-ID:  <200012230800.eBN80Le93546@earth.backplane.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012222323430.74029-100000@beppo.feral.com> <5lu27vlgz0.fsf@assaris.sics.se>

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:Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> writes:
:> Hmm. The client wasn't following symlinks.
:
:You sure?  What happens is when you queue up an nfs operation provoked
:by following a symlink.  I couldn't figure any other way of making
:that happen.
:
:> The patch seems simple enough, but it probably shouldn't just
:> swallow the error.
:
:Yeah, your patch to subr_prf.c is better.
:
:/assar

    Looking at the cvs logs it looks like Poul forgot to check for 
    p == NULL in his new simplified tprintf() API.   The 'sess' based
    tprintf did check for NULL.  The proc based tprintf does not.

    So fixing it in tprintf() itself, in subr_prf.c, is the right move.

						-Matt



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