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To: Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com>
Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: 971208 and the nfs rollback didn't fix it...
References: <199712101846.MAA26627@home.dragondata.com>
From: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
Date: 10 Dec 1997 23:10:14 +0100
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Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com> writes:

> I can reproduce this every time...
> 
> Does anyone really feel the need to investigate this? I realize userland
> programs should never crash the kernel, but... is this a big enough deal for
> someone to want to investigate?

Yes.  Userland programs should NEVER be able to crash the kernel,
especially not running as users (instead of root).

Now - more details :-)  Do you get a kernel panic when it crash?

Have you traced .cshrc files and tried changing /etc/login.conf for
the user that gave you the strange effects?

Eivind.