From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jun 7 13: 7: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A67337B403 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 13:06:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f57KGqH02474 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 13:16:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200106072016.f57KGqH02474@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: proc->pstats / SIGVTALRM Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 13:16:52 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In fielding a question from someone regarding what appears to be SIGVTALRM sniping on their system, I noticed that the pstats structure (which holds the p_timer fields which are used to track interval timers) is outside the bzero-on-allocation region of the proc structure. Thus it seems to me that it would be possible for garbage to be present in these fields, leading to possible spurious generation of this signal. Can anyone point out where I'm mistaken here? Regards, Mike -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message