Scott Long wrote: > Tim Robbins wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 03:20:19PM -0700, Colin Percival wrote: >> >>> At 15:04 15/07/2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: >>> >>>> * linprocfs [...] >>>> if (pvd->pvd_pid != NO_PID) { >>>> if ((proc = pfind(pvd->pvd_pid)) == NULL) >>>> PFS_RETURN (ENOENT); >>>> --> vap->va_uid = proc->p_ucred->cr_ruid; >>>> >>>> rwatson has a patch that works around this particular null pointer >>>> deref, but the underlying cause is not addressed. >>> >>> >>> This looks like the "embryonic processes are added to allproc and >>> p_hash too soon" bug (cf. kern/68364). Last I heard, tjr was going >>> to fix this in the next few days. >> >> >> >> I was going to, but it turns out that my original solution of not >> putting "embryonic" processes on allproc would further break >> checkdirs() -- >> there are already a few kinds of races that can happen there, and I don't >> want to add more. >> >> >> Tim > > > Please don't take this the wrong way, but would you consider using a > null-modem serial cable and SLIP or PPP instead? PLIP has been > neglected nice it was first introduced, and I doubt that it has much > life left. Setting up SLIP and PPP is trivially easy and has a much > better chance of working between OS's. > > Scott > Ok, I've officially been in front of the computer for too long today. This response was actually meant for a different message. Sorry for the confusion. ScottReceived on Fri Jul 16 2004 - 01:18:37 UTC
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