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Date:      Thu, 07 Oct 1999 15:58:33 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net>, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Random malfunction or hack?
Message-ID:  <4.2.0.58.19991007155738.042ab450@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <19991007225059.P71340@bitbox.follo.net>
References:  <4.2.0.58.19991007120245.041a87d0@localhost> <4.2.0.58.19991007104520.043fbbb0@localhost> <Pine.BSF.3.96.991007140006.7709G-100000@ruby> <4.2.0.58.19991007120245.041a87d0@localhost>

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At 10:50 PM 10/7/99 +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote:

>Sound very much like a (now fixed) VM bug which triggers very seldom,
>which leads to page table corruption (IIRC) which trigger on fork().

Oooh. I knew that there were some VM problems in 2.2.8; I didn't know
that this would be one of the side effects. Thank you for the heads-up!

--Brett



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