On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 10:12:24AM +1100, matthew green wrote:
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> has anyone tried out softdep on the sparc?  i've twice now built a
> kernel (from todays, and about 2 weeks's ago's sources) and when i
> attempted to boot a kernel with `options SOFTDEP' (but nothing in
> my filesystems changed!), it seems to reliably crash doing a chmod()
> operation.  this happens on the first chmod that the chmod of pty's
> in /etc/rc does on a typical boot, however, if i change this to be
> "ktruss chmod ..." (so i see the syscalls as they happen), then it
> does *not* crash.  it will, however, die later on a chmod that is
> not being ptraced...

I have it on my ss20, I didn't notice problems.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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