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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: Dump segv w/devfs (was Re: My list of -CURRENT problems) 
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Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
 > >dump 0af - / > /dev/null - works
 > >dump 0af /usr/tmp/foo /  - works
 > >dump 0af /dev/null /	 - SEGV w/devfs, works with normal /dev
 > 
 > How about running dump under a debugger and try to find out where
 > it SEGV's ?

Too simple?  ;-)

Now that I'm _trying_ to get it to segv, I can't.  So I take back what
I said about devfs now that I can't reproduce it anymore..  I've got it
sitting in a while 1 loop, with coredumps enabled now...

Drew

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