From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 13 08:56:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA26422 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 08:56:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from trojanhorse.ml.org (mdean.vip.best.com [206.86.94.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA26412 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 08:56:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org) Received: from localhost (jamil@localhost) by trojanhorse.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA00247; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 08:56:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 08:56:06 -0800 (PST) From: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" To: john hood cc: jerry_hicks@bigfoot.com, FreeBSD-Hackers Subject: Re: Pentium Bug Fix... In-Reply-To: <199711130638.BAA16748@smoke.marlboro.vt.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Oh thats good, just what we need. Hack a damn module binary to figure out what it is doing. Anybody have any real data on how this might be repaired? Makes me wonder if they are scanning the code segment of all loaded programs for that pattern or something evil to that extent. That would be basically like a heuristic virus scanner under dos? I guess the intel bug just made a whole lot of servers into dos machines. On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, john hood wrote: > Jerry Hicks writes: > > Richard M. Neswold wrote: > > > > > > Apparently Intel has helped BSDI in creating a fix to the Pentium bug: > > > > > > ftp://ftp.bsdi.com/bsdi/patches/patches-3.1/M310-hangfix > > > > > > Rich > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > Richard Neswold, Accelerator Div./Controls Dept | neswold@fnal.gov > > > Fermilab, PO Box 500, MS 347, Batavia, IL 60510 | voice (630) 840-3454 > > > 'finger neswold@aduxb.fnal.gov' for PGP key | fax (630) 840-3093 > > > > And I get: > > > > The M310-hangfix beta patch is unavailable at the moment. We'll > > keep everyone posted. > > It's still available on the ftp.uu.net mirror. > > --jh > > -- > Mr. Belliveau said, "the difference was the wise, John Hood, cgull > intelligent look on the face of the cow." He was @ > *so* right. --Ofer Inbar smoke.marlboro.vt.us >