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Subject: Re: vnode as filesystem (crash!)
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>  > Also, the NetBSD code has a bug, where it will call the setsize() before
>  > it tests the length in this particular case...
> 
> ...and it was so kind of you to report it when you noticed it.  I'll
> make sure and forward this on to the appropriate folks.

I just noticed it the night before, and the machine I noticed it on
has no way to send mail, and I don't have a current NetBSD tree on
this machine.

The code in question is in ftruncate() in one of ufs/ffs/*alloc.c,
I think ffs_balloc.c.  Sorry I can't be more specific.


					Regards,
					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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