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Date:      Mon, 17 Mar 1997 00:33:40 +0100
From:      Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bin/3004: "watch" causes a reboot when not given a tty name
Message-ID:  <19970317003340.40995@keltia.freenix.fr>
References:  <199703161843.FAA11407@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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According to Bruce Evans:
> The real problem is in the kernel.  Applications should not be able to
> cause a panic.

I agree.

> The problem in watch was actually that it tried to enable snoop mode
> on the directory /dev/.  st_rdev is invalid for non-devices on ufs

I already answered Mike on that very subject: I don't gave the knowledge to
fix the problem within the kernel (I saw you just did it, thanks) so I
"fixed" the problem in watch. Trying to snoop on "/dev/" was not possible
any more.
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
   FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #39: Sun Feb  2 22:12:44 CET 1997



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