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Date:      Wed, 12 Jun 1996 05:13:05 -0700
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
Cc:        Matt Day <mday@artisoft.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Kernel panic in fsync, 2.2-960501-SNAP 
Message-ID:  <199606121213.FAA00941@Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jun 1996 23:28:25 EDT." <Pine.NEB.3.92.960611232239.5845F-100000@zap.io.org> 

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>On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Matt Day wrote:
>>
>> Sorry for the false alarm on yesterday's patch.  I saw "NULL
>> dereference" and "fsync" and I immediately thought of that fsync
>> dereferencing NULL bug... but that was ffs_fsync(), not plain old
>> fsync()!  I think appropriate punishment for my error would be to
>> find this other bug.  :-)
>
>    Could you, pretty please?  ;-)  I've built emacs 19.31 linked with
>the 2.2 libs to see if that was a problem, but I just saw one of the
>shell servers die again tonight.  :(  I'm going to try your patch
>anyway to see how it goes.  Thanks.
>
>Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
>fault virtual address   = 0x18
>fault code              = supervisor read, page not present
>instruction pointer     = 0x8:0xf012afc3

   Since this is -current, I would strongly suggest SUPing the latest stuff.
There were a great deal of serious VM system bugs in the 0501 snapshot that
have just recently been worked out.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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