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Date:      Wed, 28 Mar 2001 03:59:02 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: Fun way to panic -current
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010328035902.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200103281139.EAA02940@usr05.primenet.com>

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On 28-Mar-01 Terry Lambert wrote:
> Run the 4.3 mountd on it.
> 
> Boom!  Kernel memory allocation way to large; unrecoverable!

Yes, struct ucred sucks.  In -current the userland now uses a static struct
xucred that doesn't contain things like mutexes and thus mountd shouldn't crash
in current anymore when struct ucred changes size.  Too bad we can't retrofit
that. :(

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