From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Mar 16 10:20:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA11774 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 16 Mar 1997 10:20:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA11743; Sun, 16 Mar 1997 10:20:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 10:20:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199703161820.KAA11743@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs Cc: From: Mike Pritchard Subject: Re: bin/3004: "watch" causes a reboot when not given a tty name Reply-To: Mike Pritchard Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The following reply was made to PR bin/3004; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Mike Pritchard To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit Subject: Re: bin/3004: "watch" causes a reboot when not given a tty name Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 10:17:09 -0800 (PST) Ollivier Robert wrote: > > The following reply was made to PR bin/3004; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: Ollivier Robert > To: jfesler@gigo.com > Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: bin/3004: "watch" causes a reboot when not given a tty name > Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 14:20:23 +0100 > > According to Jason Fesler: > > >Description: > > > > "watch" can cause the system to reboot without any trace > > of information in the logs. I don't have dumps being written > > to disk at the moment (at home, I don't have the space..). > > If this is not repeatable, I can turn on dumps and send > > one of them.. > > It has been fixed in the current sources. 2.2 also have the fix (Jörg put > it in the 2.2 branch). The problem was that watch tried to enable snoop > mode on /dev/tty. That was a userland fix, wasn't it? It still doesn't address the fact that there is something funny in the kernel that causes a crash when it is handed something bogus. -- Mike Pritchard mpp@FreeBSD.org "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"