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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: rename panics kernel
To: jhay@mikom.csir.co.za (John Hay)
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 19:02:46 +0000 ()
Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199603012017.WAA17044@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> from "John Hay" at Mar 1, 96 10:17:58 pm
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> > Resently I got a "panic : vrele : negative reference count".
> > The vrele() was called from rename().
> > 
> > I tried a simple script to exercise rename (attached below) and a
> > current system seems to panic (trapped in ufs_rename).  There's a race
> > condition lurking, it seems. I havent tried other than the sticky /tmp
> > directory as the source and target files parent directory. Also the
> > test was run under root's account, if it matters.
> > 
I'll look at it this weekend (if Davidg or someone else) doesn't get
to it first...  This one is a real bummer...

John