Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 00:59:32 +0930 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: Greg Quinlan <greg@swlct.sthames.nhs.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netstat: kvm_read: Bad address Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.9907130055550.8815-100000@bragg> In-Reply-To: <009101becc5f$99e16ec0$380051c2@qmpgmc.ac.uk>
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On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Greg Quinlan wrote:
> running 3.2-Stable and doing a number of "netstat -r" I got the following
> error (continuously - ie endless loop broken with Ctrl-C)
>
> netstat: kvm_read: Bad address
I read - argh, *somewhere*, today - that this symptom is the result of a race
condition between netstat and the kernel via the kvm interface which is
exacerbated under certain conditions.
I may, however, be wrong :-)
Kris
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