Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 15:12:47 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> To: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray) Cc: syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VM bogon? Was: Re: NIS breakage Message-ID: <199701212012.PAA06827@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> In-Reply-To: <199701211743.TAA24183@grackle.grondar.za> from "Mark Murray" at Jan 21, 97 07:43:17 pm
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Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Mark Murray had to walk into mine and say: > Stephen McKay wrote: > > In fact, I'm now so keen on my hypothesis that I've written some code. > > Unfortunately, I have no -current box to test it on. Thus, if Mr Murry > > wishes to risk all, the following patch may help. > > > > ** WARNING ** I have done no testing at all on this patch. ** WARNING ** > > > > > > --- support.s Tue Jan 21 11:48:00 1997 > > +++ support.s.new Tue Jan 21 19:43:35 1997 > > It works! You are brilliant, sir! I'll say. I would never have figured this out unless somebody shoved at least a dozen i386 assembly language programming books into my head. (Contrary to popular opinion, my head isn't that big. :) > I have no more portmap bombing out, and ypbind is no longer giving these > bogus "bad address" turds. > > Excellent! I applied both patches to test machine in my office. Near as I can tell, it's had no ill effects. As I expected, I didn't see the EFAULTs after I loaded the 3.0 SNAP, but then again I haven't really tried to start it thrashing. I contemplated dusting off the corpse of my previous test box (an AMD 386/40) to see if I maybe the cruftier CPU could force the condition out into the open; now I'm glad that's no longer necessary. :) Okay. Does somebody else want to check this stuff over and commit it to -current (and 2.2 I would think)? I can do it but I don't know what the hell I'm looking at. -Bill -- ============================================================================= -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ============================================================================= "It is not I who am crazy; it is I who am mad!" - Ren Hoek, "Space Madness" =============================================================================
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