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From: Bernd Walter <ticso@mail.cicely.de>
To: Bernd Walter <ticso@mail.cicely.de>
Cc: "Eugene L. Vorokov" <vel@bugz.infotecs.ru>,
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Subject: Re: kernel panic when trying to use init's address space
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On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 02:59:17PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
> You are mmaping into the address space for the process you use the
> struct proc from.
> As long as it's this programm that is curproc everything is fine.
> That means you are called from that process such in kldload or
> interrupted that proccess.
> What you need is to use the address space that is common to all
> proccess while working in kernel mode not into the proccess specific.
> I don't know if it is possible to mmap into that space.

Sorry for that bad english and for the massive typos.
I hope you understood what I was trying to write.
Guess it's bad to enjoy natures sun for to long...
Going to back to enjoy sun computers which aren't that critical if
used for hours.

-- 
B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de


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