From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 11 11:58:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mta1.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta1.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 410981532F for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 11:58:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@holly.dyndns.org) Received: from holly.dyndns.org ([216.62.157.60]) by mta1.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.09.16.21.57.p8) with ESMTP id <0FJG00HQWCP4R2@mta1.rcsntx.swbell.net> for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 13:58:17 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA21772; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 13:57:29 -0500 (CDT envelope-from chris) X-URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/~chris/ Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 13:57:28 -0500 From: Chris Costello Subject: Re: aio_read kills machine In-reply-to: To: Chad David Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chris@calldei.com Message-id: <19991011135728.F19110@holly.calldei.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT (i386) References: <19991010204252.D15135@holly.calldei.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 11, 1999, Chad David wrote: > Some replys indicated that I should use -current > for aio_*. Would this be true also for any > serious threading? Is -current ready for a > semi-production environment? Not really. The fact is that a user program can crash 3.3-STABLE and that is unacceptable. No user program should be able to bring down a system, _especially_ in -STABLE. > The source for this code is available from > http://www.guild.ab.ca/killer.tar.gz if anyone > would like to take a look. The crash has been > truncating main.c, so you may want to copy it > before running the program. > > Thanks. > > Chad -- |Chris Costello |TRAPEZOID - A device for catching zoids. `---------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message