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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 00:02:39 +0100
From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
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> We've been seeing some mysterious kernel panics from FreeBSD
> 2.2-STABLE.
> 
> Oct 21 15:38:45 himalia /kernel: panic: ufs_lock: recursive lock not expected,

Last time I checked any user could generate a panic
similar to this by typing:

	mkdir /tmp/t
	mount_msdos /tmp/t /tmp/t

Is anyone likely to have done this?

	David.