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Date:      Wed, 19 Mar 1997 11:46:05 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        scrappy@hub.org (The Hermit Hacker)
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au, imp@village.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2.2 Kernel Unstable
Message-ID:  <199703190116.LAA20485@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970318204909.215k-100000@thelab.hub.org> from The Hermit Hacker at "Mar 18, 97 08:52:17 pm"

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The Hermit Hacker stands accused of saying:
> 
> 	Okay, but this doesn't quite explain why a kernel (2.2, not 3.0)
> from around Feb 7th causes a SegFault, while a kernel generated  by
> the 2.2-RELEASE source tree causes a system reboot...

It all depends on where the fault occurs; if it's in memory used by a
program, the program gets killed.  If it's in memory used by the
kernel, the kernel gets killed.

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