From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Apr 28 22:20: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C519537B43C for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2001 22:20:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f3T5K3O34703; Sat, 28 Apr 2001 22:20:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 22:20:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200104290520.f3T5K3O34703@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Joseph Mallett Subject: Re: kern/26942: attempting to open a devfs device node causes crash Reply-To: Joseph Mallett Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR kern/26942; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Joseph Mallett To: Dima Dorfman Cc: , Subject: Re: kern/26942: attempting to open a devfs device node causes crash Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 05:11:37 +0000 (GMT) Are there any plans to fix this in 4.x? -- +--------------------------------------+ | Joseph Mallett | | xMach Core Team | +--------------------------------------+ | xMach: Proactively Unbloated | | Microkernel BSD | | IRC: irc.openprojects.net/#xMach | | Web: www.xMach.org | +--------------------------------------+ On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Dima Dorfman wrote: > 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. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message