From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 25 23:52:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA19863 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:52:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA19818 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:52:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA14177 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 08:52:16 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA01551 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 08:52:16 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id IAA09562 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 08:39:27 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611260739.IAA09562@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: A simple way to crash your system. To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 08:39:27 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <9164.848980339@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Nov 25, 96 07:52:19 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] 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 As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Would it be sufficient to comment it out of GENERIC (or remove it entirely > > and leave it in LINT), and maybe add a comment suggesting it's a bull > > running through a china shop? > > I could live with that. ...though it wouldn't help you much, either. :-) mount_msdos will take care to load the LKM if it's not a static filesystem. That's how i use msdosfs on machines where i need it, and that (the mismatch between the kernel and the LKM) is also what started this thread, not the msdosfs brokeness per se. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)