From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 3 18:48: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE95C15ADB for ; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 18:47:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA10176; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 02:46:37 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA04373; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 02:45:56 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199906040145.CAA04373@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: dyson@iquest.net Cc: ahasty@mindspring.com (Amancio Hasty), dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon), crossd@cs.rpi.edu (David E. Cross), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, schimken@cs.rpi.edu Subject: Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12 In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 03 Jun 1999 20:11:38 CDT." <199906040111.UAA24492@dyson.iquest.net.> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 02:45:56 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > It wasn't the "dark side" of core, it was the panic'ed and worried > part of core that was seeing things happening without careful review. The system was becoming unstable due to Matts changes. Whether the instabilities were in Matts code or somewhere else is irrelevent. The reaction was (IMHO) the right thing to do. -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message