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Date:      Sat, 16 Nov 1996 07:59:35 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, terry@lambert.org
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org, jdp@polstra.com, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, scrappy@ki.net
Subject:   Re: Sockets question...
Message-ID:  <199611152059.HAA27679@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> 	on system 1 with 32MB RAM: the kernel panics with a double fault
>
>This is, I think, expected behaviour for a page which is not present but
>for which a kmem mapping exists.  This happens because the /kernel file
>is mapped to /dev/kmem.

Not in FreeBSD.  /kernel is an ordinary, unmapped file.

>If you try this with a different file (one without an established mapping),
>what happens?

Same.  It was a bug in i586_copyout.

>
>> 	on system 2 with 8MB RAM: read returns -1.

This worked because it's an i486.  The memory size was irrelevant.  This
shows why everyone should include full information information in bug
reports.

Bruce



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