Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 20:47:36 -0500 From: Shawn Carey <smc@servtech.com> To: stesin@gu.net Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, dyson@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone else seen this? Message-ID: <333B2338.41C67EA6@servtech.com> References: <199703270128.LAA04400@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Wed, 26 Mar 1997 13:28:28 Andrew Stesin said: > > Just curious, what will happen in case the program file affected > by this bug will occasionally reside on a R/O-mounted FS? > > If the kernel will eat this difference quietly, without > any strange side effects, crashes, messages or so -- I'd probably > wonder... > Yes, it will. I tried this today, and even GDB was happy. As soon as I remounted the filesystem R/W the problem reappeared... So, it seems to me we have two interesting data points regarding this: 1) Statically linked binaries are not affected by this phenomenon. 2) Binaries residing on R/O filesystems are not affected either. Does anyone know anything else? -Shawn
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