From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 29 11:47:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA02471 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 11:47:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA02464 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 11:47:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA04918; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 11:46:53 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704291846.LAA04918@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: netscape & dos file access To: un_x@anchorage.net (Steve Howe) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 11:46:52 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Steve Howe" at Apr 29, 97 03:42:58 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > i think i may be crazy here, but i have verified this any times. > > i got Netscape for FreeBSD form Netscape's site. > if i modify the "bookmarks" path in the "preferences" file, > whether relative, or absolute, to my W31 Netscapes bookmarks > on my DOS partition, it will crash within 5 minutes or so. > eventually crashing my entire system after a few restarts. > > however, i may change this path to my Lynx bookmarks in another > directory on my BSDfs and it will run fine ... ? > > i can't understand this! other programs do fine accessing the DOS > partition, and Netscape shouldn't care where the blocks come off > the hard drive ... ??? I'd be very interested to know if: 1) Netscape mmap's this file. 2) Netscape calls msync() when changing the file size via normal FS operations. You will have to pound printf's into your kernel to check this out (sorry, I don't run most of my developement machines net-connected, so I don't have Netscape to try to reproduce the problem). I suspect that there are specific problems in the DOSFS in the first case above, which may or may not be related to the second case, above. Sorry I can't provide better help. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.