From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 20 13:23:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from midten.fast.no (midten.fast.no [195.139.251.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69F7515ABC for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 13:23:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tegge@fast.no) Received: from fast.no (IDENT:tegge@midten.fast.no [195.139.251.11]) by midten.fast.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA38626; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 22:23:00 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <199909202023.WAA38626@midten.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 From: Tor.Egge@fast.no In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:19:43 -0700 (PDT)" References: <199909201919.MAA83623@apollo.backplane.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.70 on Emacs 19.34.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 22:23:00 +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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