Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 18:22:53 -0800 From: Jim Browne <jbrowne@jbrowne.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More on BTX halted / crashes trying to use -stable /boot/loader Message-ID: <v04205508b655f55f9747@[216.39.8.88]> In-Reply-To: <200012080144.eB81iXN00495@mass.osd.bsdi.com> References: <200012080144.eB81iXN00495@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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At 17:44 -0800 12/7/00, Mike Smith wrote:
>This is probably an OK workaround. I think that there's something
>fundamentally wrong with the 'net' filesystems getting called for an open
>against a disk device, but I've paged out all the libstand state and I
>can't get it back fast enough to comment more usefully. 8(
A "better" thing to do would be for tftp_open to check the dv_type of
the struct devsw member of struct open_file to see if it is a network
device. However, stand.h has a comment stating that the dv_type
member of struct devsw is an "opaque type constant, arch-dependant".
Since tftp.c is in the arch-neutral libstand(3), I figured it would
be bad for tftp.c to gain knowledge of the "opaque" db_type field.
Regardless, the check I added should be there as it was an uncovered
error condition.
>BTW Jim, the stuff you're working on sounds really cool. Thanks for
>taking it on!
Apparently I am a glutton for punishment. Expect more bugfix patches
in the near future.
Jim Browne jbrowne@jbrowne.com
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