>Number:         116
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Attempting to display directory /kern crashes 3 Feb 94 NetBSD-current
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    gnats-admin (Kernel Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Feb  8 17:05:06 1994
>Originator:     Christopher Jon Kane
>Organization:
Purdue University Daemons
>Release:        NetBSD-current, of 3 Feb 1994
>Environment:
i486DX2 machine
		plain NetBSD-current (3 Feb 94)
System: NetBSD kidd.vet.purdue.edu 0.9a DAEMONS16BIT#1 i386


>Description:
	`cat /kern` will crash the operating system.  Cause unknown.
	No useful messages in /var/log/messages.  The /kern directory
	does not seem to have a parent directory pointer:
kidd.vet> ls -la /kern
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel          512 Feb  8 19:55 .
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel          101 Feb  8 19:55 copyright
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel           20 Feb  8 19:55 hostname
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel            4 Feb  8 19:55 hz
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel           11 Feb  8 19:55 loadavg
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel            5 Feb  8 19:55 physmem
brw-r-----  1 root  operator    0,   0 Jan  6 17:30 rootdev
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel           17 Feb  8 19:55 time
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel          133 Feb  8 19:55 version
	... which may or may not be a problem.
>How-To-Repeat:
	cd /
	cat kern
>Fix:
	Unknown.

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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