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Date:      Mon, 20 Sep 1999 22:23:00 +0200
From:      Tor.Egge@fast.no
To:        dillon@apollo.backplane.com
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: request for review, patch to specfs to fix EOF condition alignment with buffer
Message-ID:  <199909202023.WAA38626@midten.fast.no>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:19:43 -0700 (PDT)"
References:  <199909201919.MAA83623@apollo.backplane.com>

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>     This problem was first found by Tor.  Tor's example creates
>     an oddly-sized VN partition and then  dd's from it.  Without the
>     patch the dd believes that it can read 2880 sectors.  With the
>     patch it correctly reads the last (truncated) block.

Actually, the problem was discussed in -stable under the topic
"Interesting way to crash a 3.2-stable box" around 1999-08-28.

The discussion soon changed topic to 
"Interesting ways to print 3000 spaces...".

- Tor Egge



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