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Date:      Sun, 31 Mar 1996 14:06:05 -0500 (EST)
From:      "matthew c. mead" <mmead@Glock.COM>
To:        adam@veda.is (Adam David)
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kernel locking hangs system?
Message-ID:  <199603311906.OAA08482@neon.Glock.COM>
In-Reply-To: <199603311835.SAA01378@veda.is> from "Adam David" at Mar 31, 96 06:35:36 pm

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Adam David writes:

> > I just supped everything this evening and did a make install.
> > Of course, /var/mail was set mode 755 owned by bin.bin

> If you make /var/mail a symlink to somewhere else, mtree will leave it alone.

	Well, yeah.  There are also other ways of making "make
world" not touch it with mtree.  My point is, a system should not
hang when a kernel lock is requested for a readonly directory!




-matt

-- 
Matthew C. Mead

mmead@Glock.COM
http://www.Glock.COM/~mmead/



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