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Date:      Mon, 9 Nov 1998 09:24:10 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The infamous dying daemons bug
Message-ID:  <199811091724.JAA02097@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <19981109181501.17552@follo.net> from Eivind Eklund at "Nov 9, 98 06:15:01 pm"

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Eivind Eklund writes:
> > Could someone who is seeing this happen often recompile their
> > kernel with memory mapping disabled, and see if that changes
> > anything (other than making programs that use mmap() stop working)?
> > Ie, comment out
> > 
> >   options         SYSVSHM     
> >   options         SYSVSEM
> >   options         SYSVMSG     
> > 
> > (this *does* disable mmap(), right? If not, instead patch the
> > mmap() syscall to always return an error)
> 
> This does NOT remove mmap() support.
> 
> If you remove mmap() support, not dynamically linked executables will
> work.  You'll have to recompile everything static before trying this
> trick.

Oops, I was confusing memory mapping and shared memory.

Let's try the statically compiled inetd experiment first then..
any volunteers who can readily reproduce the problem want to
try it?

-Archie

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