Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 12:49:08 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org> Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_exec.c Message-ID: <199712172049.MAA24493@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Dec 1997 21:39:31 %2B0100." <199712172039.VAA09842@gvr.gvr.org>
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>David Greenman wrote: >> This log message is somewhat wrong. It's not the struct buf that was >> being free()'d, but rather the buffer mapping/target of the struct buf (the >> filesystem data). A serious bug nonetheless, and I can hardly imagine what >> this might do to the system. > >Might this be an explanation of date stamps suddenly changing on files? >This has been reported a number of times in the past. No. The system will corrupt the files (the in-core copy at least) and/or crash. The problem with the timestamps has to do with seeing a page modification when one didn't actually occur - sort of the inverse of a bug we used to have where we didn't see certain modifications. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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