From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Jul 8 12:14:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from dt054n86.san.rr.com (dt054n86.san.rr.com [24.30.152.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0638914F3D for ; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 12:14:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt054n86.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA27321; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 12:14:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 12:14:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt054n86.san.rr.com To: Nick Hibma Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/4487: Kernel panic executing a directory In-Reply-To: <199907071200.FAA26234@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Nick Hibma wrote: > I think this PR can be closed with the current version of bash and the > OS. Maybe upgrading the bash version would suffice. bash-2.00.0 is the > initial 2.x release and therefore bound to be unstable. While I agree that this PR is probably too old to keep open, it should be noted that userland processes (like a shell) no matter how badly behaved should never be allowed to panic the kernel. Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message