Subject: Re: Another crash, current-940425
To: None <mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
From: Robert L. Shady <rls@zeus.id.net>
List: current-users
Date: 04/27/1994 06:41:45
> Monday and today's kernel do this to me right after autoconfig, right
> as it's beginning to fsck:
Hmmm.. I just get infrequent reboots, haven't been able to track down why
yet, since I remove the kernel debugger from my kernel.. ;)
> Let me guess. You have now or at some point had `options FASTLINKS' in
> your kerel, right?
Yes, actually, I do...
> There was a bug in ufs_readlink() due to the type changes which I just
> fixed this afternoon. In ufs_vnops.c, circa line 1429, change:
>
> return (uiomove(ip->i_symlink, ip->i_size, uiop));
>
> to:
>
> return (uiomove(ip->i_symlink, (size_t)ip->i_size, uiop));
Great! You think this could be the reason? I get past the fsck stuff, and
the kernel runs for ~2-24 hours, then reboots...
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