From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 31 11:07:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA12295 for current-outgoing; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 11:07:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from neon.Glock.COM (neon.glock.com [198.82.228.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA12289 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 11:07:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mmead@localhost) by neon.Glock.COM (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA08482; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 14:06:06 -0500 (EST) From: "matthew c. mead" Message-Id: <199603311906.OAA08482@neon.Glock.COM> Subject: Re: kernel locking hangs system? To: adam@veda.is (Adam David) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 14:06:05 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603311835.SAA01378@veda.is> from "Adam David" at Mar 31, 96 06:35:36 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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/