Subject: Re: Weird systrace failures
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Christian Biere <christianbiere@gmx.de>
List: current-users
Date: 11/05/2003 23:46:39
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Christian Biere <christianbiere@gmx.de> wrote:
> Unfortunately, on NetBSD 1.6ZD (i386),
> systrace behaves somewhat weird. If the system becomes rather busy due
> to compiling or a "find /" mplayer will quit because systrace refuses
> several (maybe all) syscalls. If I then restart mplayer, systrace
> will complain "getcwd: permission denied".

The directory I used as mount point for the affected partition had
mode 500. So every top level directory on the partition had a
parent directory which was only accessible for root. I've chmod'ed
the directory to 555 and the problem is gone now.

-- 
Christian

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