Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 14:06:05 -0500 (EST) From: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@Glock.COM> To: adam@veda.is (Adam David) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel locking hangs system? Message-ID: <199603311906.OAA08482@neon.Glock.COM> In-Reply-To: <199603311835.SAA01378@veda.is> from "Adam David" at Mar 31, 96 06:35:36 pm
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Adam David writes: > > I just supped everything this evening and did a make install. > > Of course, /var/mail was set mode 755 owned by bin.bin > If you make /var/mail a symlink to somewhere else, mtree will leave it alone. Well, yeah. There are also other ways of making "make world" not touch it with mtree. My point is, a system should not hang when a kernel lock is requested for a readonly directory! -matt -- Matthew C. Mead mmead@Glock.COM http://www.Glock.COM/~mmead/
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