Re: [CHECKER] free bugs in 2.4.4 and 2.4.4-ac8

2001-05-24 Thread Justin Carlson
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Dawson Engler wrote: > Hi All, > > Enclosed are 24 bugs where code uses memory that has been freed. The > good thing about these bugs is that they are easy to fix. (Note: About > 5 of these have had patches submitted, so this list is a bit out of > date.) Enclosed is a pat

Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-18 Thread Justin Carlson
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Jes Sorensen wrote: > Oh I don't, on the other hand I see you consistently ignoring the > needs and requirements of the users. So far I haven't heard a single > developer say something positive about CML2, the most positive I have > heard so far has been "whatever", "it's his

SMP bug revealed by networking?

2001-05-07 Thread Justin Carlson
I'm working on a new SMP mips port, and tripped over a strange bug. Am not quite sure how to attack it. I'm running 2.4.2 from oss.sgi.com's cvs repositry, booting with the root filesystem being over NFS with two cores active in the system. The port is actually fairly stable at the moment, but

Re: Bug in the file attributes ?

2001-03-29 Thread Justin Carlson
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Xavier Ordoquy wrote: > Hi, > > I just made a manipulation that disturbs me. So I'm asking whether it's a > bug or a features. > > user> su > root> echo "test" > test > root> ls -l > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root5 Mar 29 19:14 test > root> exit > user> rm test > r

Ramdisk root filesystem strangeness

2000-12-07 Thread Justin Carlson
Am in the midst of bringing up the kernel on a new MIPS variant, and I'm tryingthe mount a statically linked ramdisk as the root filesystem. Note, this is NOT using initrd support, I really want to use a ramdisk as my final filesystem, not as an intermediate step in booting the system. In blkde