From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 7 12:48:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA21114 for stable-outgoing; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 12:48:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA21109 for ; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 12:48:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA07922; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 12:48:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp) Message-Id: <199712072048.MAA07922@austin.polstra.com> To: dave@syix.com Subject: Re: Make World Fails In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19971206195010.00b0c670@syix.com> References: <3.0.2.32.19971206112246.008bb5a0@syix.com> <3.0.2.32.19971206112246.008bb5a0@syix.com> <3.0.2.32.19971206195010.00b0c670@syix.com> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: stable@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 07 Dec 1997 12:48:02 -0800 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <3.0.2.32.19971206195010.00b0c670@syix.com>, Dave Overton wrote: > For info, the file was corrupted, it had the right date and size, just a > bunch of NULL characters in it, about the middle of line 1123 to about line > 1130... Yep, and I'd bet dollars to donuts that the corruption begins at a multiple of 512 bytes (and probably a multiple of 4096 bytes) from the beginning of the file. Man, I _hate_ those kinds of problems. :-( John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth