Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 11:06:58 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@gorean.org> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How stable is -current? Message-ID: <3731DA42.302CE829@gorean.org> References: <XFMail.990506111439.jobaldwi@vt.edu> <199905061734.KAA37651@apollo.backplane.com>
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Matthew Dillon wrote: > The only major bugfixes that have not been backported from -current to > -stable in regards to NFS are the NFS/TCP fix, which is being backported > now, and a number of fixes to the VM system when dealing with mmap(), > which cannot be backported until we backport the entire -current VM system. Ok, that's good news. I'd like to stick with -stable if I can. No pressure, but do you have an ETA on the VM backport? I'm assuming that something like that is "down the road," probably after 3.2? > The mmap() breakage is unavoidable in -stable but hopefully will not cause > serious problems for people. The breakage is related to garbarge showing > up in the mmap()'d pages *after* the logical file EOF. That is, if you > have a 500 byte file and mmap() it into a 4K page, data occuring after > offset 500 may or may not be 0. Hrrrmm... ok. So what could happen due to this bug, and how would I spot it? Meanwhile I'll keep an eye on the commits for that NFS backport. Thanks muchly for the update. :) Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** Nominated for quote of the year is the statement made by Representative Dick Armey (Texas), who when asked if he were in the President's place, would he resign, responded: "If I were in the President's place I would not get a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood hearing Mrs. Armey standing over me saying, 'How do I reload this damn thing?'" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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