From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Sep 29 10:24:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA25216 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 10:24:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.tky007.tth.expo96.ad.jp (root@tky007.tth.expo96.ad.jp [133.246.32.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA25169 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 10:24:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tky007.tth.expo96.ad.jp (masafumi@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.tky007.tth.expo96.ad.jp (8.7.6/3.4W4-SMTP) with ESMTP id CAA08207; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 02:21:45 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199609291721.CAA08207@mail.tky007.tth.expo96.ad.jp> To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr Cc: max@wide.ad.jp, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/1687: watch makes kernel crash From: Masafumi NAKANE/=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQ2Y6LDJtSjgbKEI=?= In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 28 Sep 1996 18:33:47 +0200" References: <199609281633.SAA01243@keltia.freenix.fr> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.06 on Emacs 19.28.1, Mule 2.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 02:21:45 +0900 Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Subject: Re: bin/1687: watch makes kernel crash Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 18:33:47 +0200 > > # watch > > Snoop started. > > Enter device name []: <--- Hit return here. > > It is blowing up because watch try to snoop /dev/tty. I guess watch should > refuse an empty string. Yes. I figured out that watch is trying on /dev/tty. I think watch should check if a device with given name really exists before attempting to snoop on it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Masafumi NAKANE, Keio Univ., Dept. of Environmental Information E-Mail : max@wide.ad.jp / max@FreeBSD.ORG [URL] : http://www.sfc.wide.ad.jp/~max/