From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jul 11 19:16:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA03341 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 11 Jul 1998 19:16:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (daemon@smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA03298 for ; Sat, 11 Jul 1998 19:16:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA25532; Sat, 11 Jul 1998 19:16:26 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd025523; Sat Jul 11 19:16:24 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA01815; Sat, 11 Jul 1998 19:16:21 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199807120216.TAA01815@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Arrgh ! resubscribing again again again.... To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 02:16:21 +0000 (GMT) Cc: dg@root.com, tlambert@primenet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199807120211.TAA29647@usr08.primenet.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jul 12, 98 02:11:36 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm at work right now; the code is pretty obvious, but I can send it > to you when I get home, if you want. You will need enough disk to hold > the large mapped file, which the shell script creates via dd of /dev/zero. PS: If you do run this code, do it on a quiescent system, and be prepared to have any open file's contents trashed; it's not so reliable a flaw that it trashes only the target file... expect to potentially have to reinstall. 8-(. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message