Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 22:23:00 +0200 From: Tor.Egge@fast.no To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: request for review, patch to specfs to fix EOF condition alignment with buffer Message-ID: <199909202023.WAA38626@midten.fast.no> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:19:43 -0700 (PDT)" References: <199909201919.MAA83623@apollo.backplane.com>
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> This problem was first found by Tor. Tor's example creates > an oddly-sized VN partition and then dd's from it. Without the > patch the dd believes that it can read 2880 sectors. With the > patch it correctly reads the last (truncated) block. Actually, the problem was discussed in -stable under the topic "Interesting way to crash a 3.2-stable box" around 1999-08-28. The discussion soon changed topic to "Interesting ways to print 3000 spaces...". - Tor Egge To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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