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Date:      Tue, 13 Jul 1999 00:59:32 +0930 (CST)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        Greg Quinlan <greg@swlct.sthames.nhs.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: netstat: kvm_read: Bad address
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.10.9907130055550.8815-100000@bragg>
In-Reply-To: <009101becc5f$99e16ec0$380051c2@qmpgmc.ac.uk>

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On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Greg Quinlan wrote:

> running 3.2-Stable and doing a number of "netstat -r"  I got the following
> error (continuously - ie endless loop broken with Ctrl-C)
> 
> netstat: kvm_read: Bad address

I read - argh, *somewhere*, today - that this symptom is the result of a race
condition between netstat and the kernel via the kvm interface which is
exacerbated under certain conditions.

I may, however, be wrong :-)

Kris

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