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Date:      Mon, 11 Oct 1999 13:57:28 -0500
From:      Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
To:        Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: aio_read kills machine
Message-ID:  <19991011135728.F19110@holly.calldei.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910111239540.369-100000@colnta.acns.ab.ca>
References:  <19991010204252.D15135@holly.calldei.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910111239540.369-100000@colnta.acns.ab.ca>

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On Mon, Oct 11, 1999, Chad David wrote:
> Some replys indicated that I should use -current
> for aio_*.  Would this be true also for any
> serious threading? Is -current ready for a
> semi-production environment?

   Not really.  The fact is that a user program can crash
3.3-STABLE and that is unacceptable.  No user program should be
able to bring down a system, _especially_ in -STABLE.

> The source for this code is available from
> http://www.guild.ab.ca/killer.tar.gz if anyone
> would like to take a look.  The crash has been
> truncating main.c, so you may want to copy it
> before running the program.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Chad

-- 
|Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
|TRAPEZOID - A device for catching zoids.
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