From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 26 17:29:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA20160 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 17:29:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA20155 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 17:28:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id LAA04400; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 11:58:25 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199703270128.LAA04400@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Anyone else seen this? In-Reply-To: from Andrew Stesin at "Mar 26, 97 01:28:28 pm" To: stesin@gu.net Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 11:58:24 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, smc@servtech.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Andrew Stesin stands accused of saying: > On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Michael Smith wrote: > > > > This looks very much like a problem that has been reported many times > > before, where one or more pages from a process' text are written back > > to the file. The pages aren't actually changed, but the file's timestamp > > is obviously updated. > > Just curious, what will happen in case the program file affected > by this bug will occasionally reside on a R/O-mounted FS? I haven't tried this, or heard anyone that has. > If the kernel will eat this difference quietly, without > any strange side effects, crashes, messages or so -- I'd probably > wonder... Likewise. > Andrew Stesin -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[