Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 12:39:27 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VM Corruption - stumped, anyone have any ideas? Message-ID: <3BB0DD6F.908C6A08@elischer.org> References: <20010925032250.57FF03808@overcee.netplex.com.au> <200109251923.f8PJN3103708@earth.backplane.com>
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Matt Dillon wrote:
>
> :I had been contemplating making a fake 'struct user' in userland only in
> :order to keep the a.out coredump reader code happy. The a.out coredump
> :code (see cpu_coredump() in */*/vm_machdep.c) can generate this fake
> :structure in order to keep gdb happy. But then I realized that a.out
> :coredump debugging was almost totally irrelevant these days.
> :
> :Cheers,
> :-Peter
> :--
> :Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
>
> Hmm. How about this... if we keep the guard field at the end of
> struct user we could #ifdef _KERNEL it so userland doesn't notice it.
>
> -Matt
So, Matt, does this solve the original question? (VM Corruption) or
is it just a fruitful red-herring?
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