From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun May 12 12:07:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA08022 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 12 May 1996 12:07:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA08017 Sun, 12 May 1996 12:07:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id MAA12362 ; Sun, 12 May 1996 12:07:18 -0700 Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id TAA07875 ; Sun, 12 May 1996 19:50:26 +0100 (BST) To: invalid opcode cc: "Marc G. Fournier" , bde@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: kern/1063 In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 12 May 1996 10:28:49 PDT." Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 19:50:24 +0100 Message-ID: <7873.831927024@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk invalid opcode wrote in message ID : > On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, Marc G. Fournier wrote: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ note carefully > > Synopsis: gzip a.out execution is not ok (?) > > Responsible-Changed-From-To: bde->freebsd-bugs > > Responsible-Changed-By: scrappy > > Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Apr 18 11:32:26 PDT 1996 > > Responsible-Changed-Why: > I could have sworn this has been fixed. Not back then it wasn't. And a quick scan of the CVS logs shows no fixes have gone in (not that explicitly mention `gzip' anyhow). Terry Lambert posted a HACKY work-around, but that (for obvious reasons) hasn't been committed, since it just masks that symptoms, not fixes the ailment. Anyone know better? Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD - Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info.