Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 07:59:35 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, terry@lambert.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, jdp@polstra.com, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, scrappy@ki.net Subject: Re: Sockets question... Message-ID: <199611152059.HAA27679@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> on system 1 with 32MB RAM: the kernel panics with a double fault > >This is, I think, expected behaviour for a page which is not present but >for which a kmem mapping exists. This happens because the /kernel file >is mapped to /dev/kmem. Not in FreeBSD. /kernel is an ordinary, unmapped file. >If you try this with a different file (one without an established mapping), >what happens? Same. It was a bug in i586_copyout. > >> on system 2 with 8MB RAM: read returns -1. This worked because it's an i486. The memory size was irrelevant. This shows why everyone should include full information information in bug reports. Bruce
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