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Date:      Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:53:10 +0100
From:      Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Michael Moll <kvedulv@kvedulv.de>, imp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: config(8) dumps core
Message-ID:  <201004300253.10461.bruce@cran.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20100429224938.GI90938@darkthrone.kvedulv.de>
References:  <20100429153154.GA70173@darkthrone.kvedulv.de> <201004292330.06455.bruce@cran.org.uk> <20100429224938.GI90938@darkthrone.kvedulv.de>

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On Thursday 29 April 2010 23:49:38 Michael Moll wrote:

> OK, that explains that with all the related commits backup out
> (207265-206664) the resulting config-binary still fails. I don't have
> time today to build the kernel with the different revisions to hunt the
> problem down to one commit...
> 
> imp@: The last commits to usr.sbin/config/* might have raised this
> problem, could you have a look at it?

It appears it was r188214 that caused the breakage: in versions prior to that, 
it outputs 6 trailing NULs and exits normally on a modern kernel. If it only 
broke recently then I guess it was kernel, not changes to the config app, that 
broke it.

-- 
Bruce Cran



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