Alex Kirk <alex@schnarff.com> wrote:
>As far as the shell dying, though, it's definitely a case of compatibility 
>between the kernel and the program. It appears that, in some cases, if the 
>kernel is newer than the program -- for example, I had a kernel compiled 
>from release sources, and bash from Josh's 1.6F tarball -- the program can't 
>handle it, and will coredump.

Actually, I'm surprised that everything didn't core dump.

You were trying to run a -1-6 branch kernel with a -current (e.g.
syscall-wise newer than -1-6) userland.  That is a big no-no.

Please see http://www.netbsd.org/Releases/release-map.html for an
explanation of release numbering.  Basically, 1.6Letter is always
to be treated as "newer" than 1.6_{ALPHA,BETA,RC}*, 1.6, or 1.6.number.

jdarrow

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