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To: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
Subject: Re: SMPNG kernel on UP 
Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:41:51 PDT."
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:46:44 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <200009141941.MAA86101@pike.osd.bsdi.com> John Baldwin writes:
: Warner Losh wrote:
: > In message <200009141928.MAA85518@pike.osd.bsdi.com> John Baldwin writes:
: > : It may be a kernel/world sync problem.  Although I don't know why the ioctl
: > : argument would suddenly become invalid.  Maybe it passes in a struct ucred,
: > : which changed in size just before the SMPng commit?
: > 
: > I don't know either.  However, it might be because of permission
: > problems.  It will return EINVAL when it can't open the apm file for
: > write.  Maybe a devfs related issue?
: 
: Hmm, it may not be using the right perms during make_dev perhaps.

Hmmm, they look good to me.  Maybe Mark's system doesn't have group
operator at gid 5.  That's one bad thing about the new DEVFS: it
appears to enshrine things like this in the kernel...

Warner


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