Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 13:20:53 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SLIP and memory corruption? Message-ID: <199605070350.NAA18941@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199605070107.TAA02637@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at May 6, 96 07:07:53 pm
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Warner Losh stands accused of saying: > > I have a couple of questions. 1) has anybody seen this sort of > behavior. 2) Are there fixes since April 15 that have even the > remotest possibility of helping us and 3) where would people recommend > that we look for the problem. We've noticed that there are boatloads > of changes to the slip driver since the 4.4 lite sources, many of > which are related to clist management (a classic recipie for a memory > dancer). There was a bogon discovered in the VJ compression routines in slcompress.c and pppcompress.c that were fixed around then. The current versions are stable : $Id: slcompress.c,v 1.5.4.1 1996/04/11 06:51:53 davidg Exp $ current: $Id: slcompress.c,v 1.7 1996/04/11 06:46:24 davidg Exp $ The bug would have affected both SLIP and kernel ppp. > Warner -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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