Re: FFS_ROOT is gone?

From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j_at_efn.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:32:23 -0700
Tim Kientzle wrote this message on Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 22:19 -0700:
> John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> >Harald Schmalzbauer wrote this message on Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:58 +0200:
> >
> >>Let's see what Tim can contribute to this topic, since he also claimed to
> >>have problems with "mountroot>"
> >
> >I have a possible patch that might address people's problems with 
> >mountroot.
> >
> >http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jmg/vfs_mount.diff
> 
> I'm certain this won't address the problem
> I saw.  I was not using a serial console,
> and I was not overflowing the buffer.
> (So stripping parity bits and enforcing
> buffer sizes won't help.)

a) this effects all consoles, not just serial
b) this doesn't just effect overflowing the buffer..  the return of -1
was being invalidated by c = cngetc() & 0177.  You can't get -1 return
on that.

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