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Date:      Sun, 22 Oct 1995 08:55:30 +0200
From:      Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@cs.hut.fi>
To:        davidg@root.com
Cc:        Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@cs.hut.fi>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 2.1.0-951020-SNAP - 2.1 *Release Candidate* 
Message-ID:  <199510220655.IAA12565@shadows.cs.hut.fi>
In-Reply-To: <199510220601.XAA04220@corbin.Root.COM>
References:  <199510220512.HAA11965@shadows.cs.hut.fi> <199510220601.XAA04220@corbin.Root.COM>

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David Greenman writes:
 >    Sorry that I missed your bug report...you really should trim down your
 > kernel config file - it was so long that I missed the important information
 > at the end of your bug report. :-)

Sorry, I forgot about using sed :-(

 > syscall - this way the fchown (and many other syscalls) will end up in the
 > dead_setattr() (which is defined to return EBADF), before v_mount is ever
 > referenced. ...problem solved.

 >    I don't know if I consider this a "critical" bug, however, as it might be
 > difficult to manifest during normal operations. I think that "slirp" must be

I think most generic servers get just this kind of pounding; many
universities do not provide IP routing for students, but they do provide
unix systems to play with, so things like slirp are common.  Similarly
getting a unix account is often cheaper than getting a SLIP/PPP account.
Slirp isn't old thing, so this isn't yet happening world-wide.  I think it
found its way into the ports just a couple of weeks ago?

 > doing something strange - like an fchown() on a TTY. I'll have to look into
 > this in more detail.

In a system where 40 people are learning to program in C in unix
environment, you can be pretty sure to find that someone doing fchown on a
tty is quite normal, just like "main() { char b; read("filename", b, 100);
}" :-)

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