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From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
Subject: Re: kern/26942: attempting to open a devfs device node causes crash 
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The following reply was made to PR kern/26942; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
To: jmallett@newgold.net
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/26942: attempting to open a devfs device node causes crash 
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 21:35:26 -0700

 jmallett@newgold.net writes:
 > 
 > >Number:         26942
 > >Category:       kern
 > >Synopsis:       attempting to open a devfs device node causes crash
 > >Description:
 > On my machine running 4.3-STABLE using devfs, with a swap device of
 > ad0s2b, attempting to open /dev/rad0s2b using vi or to run strings
 > on it (as root) causes a total crash.
 
 The devfs in RELENG_4, which is broken, isn't the same as the devfs in
 HEAD, which works quite well.  In other words: don't use devfs on
 -stable: it won't work.

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