Date: 09 Sep 1998 13:49:10 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Co=EFdan?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: dmaddox@scsn.net Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmstat/iostat dumping all over the place Message-ID: <xzphfyhld55.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: dmaddox@scsn.net's message of "Tue, 8 Sep 1998 23:25:42 %2B0000" References: <199809090141.SAA11928@mordred.cs.ucla.edu> <19980908232542.A296@scsn.net>
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dmaddox@scsn.net (Donald J. Maddox) writes: > On Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 06:41:42PM -0700, Scott Michel wrote: > > I zapped the message which identified the problem. It looks like > > there is a missing 0 or NULL at the end of the defnames[] array > > in src/usr.bin/vmstat/names.c. > It would be interesting if someone could explain why this code worked > fine when compiled as aout, but barfed when compiled as ELF... Probably because of some freak coincidence related to padding or something like that resulted in the bytes immediately after the defdrives array being all-bits-zero, so it would appear like there was a NULL at the end. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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