On Sun Aug 14 11, Niclas Zeising wrote: > On 2011-08-13 18:03, Robert Watson wrote: > > Author: rwatson > > Date: Sat Aug 13 16:03:40 2011 > > New Revision: 224842 > > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/224842 > > > > Log: > > When falloc() was broken into separate falloc_noinstall() and finstall(), > > a bug was introduced in kern_openat() such that the error from the vnode > > open operation was overwritten before it was passed as an argument to > > dupfdopen(). This broke operations on /dev/{stdin,stdout,stderr}. Fix > > by preserving the original error number across finstall() so that it is > > still available. > > > > Approved by: re (kib) > > Reported by: cognet > > > > Modified: > > head/sys/kern/vfs_syscalls.c > > > > It might be worth mentioning this in UPDATING or similar, since a kernel > built with clang (I haven't tried gcc) during this window will make it > impossible to do a buildworld without first rebuilding the kernel with > this fix. It also seems to break at least portsnap, and possibly other > tools as well.
+1. please also mention the KPI change to fget()! so many people have had issues, where 3rd party drivers - mostly the nvidia binary driver - got broken. cheers. alex > > Regards! > -- > Niclas Zeising _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
