On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 06:38:46PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Saturday, July 26, 2003 at 22:15:09 (+0100), David Laight wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: "panic: chgproccnt: lost user" on dual-CPU SS20 with 1.6.1_STABLE
> >
> > > Now my kernel source does of course include some custom modifications
> > > (one of those mods is demonstrated in the console messages below), but
> > > so far as I can tell on first glance they are not in any involved in any
> > > code path that could trigger this panic, and that seems to be confirmed
> > > by the fact the single-CPU system has never crashed (well, not this way :-).
> > 
> > They are precisely involved....  RTFC
> 
> Since I know you've not read my code there's no possible way you can
> make any such claim legitimately.  You have no idea what changes I may
> have made, nor what I have not changed.  You're out of line.

The trace message your kernel has output indicated that you have
changed the ruid of a process.  chgproccnt() is used to count the
number of processes with each ruid (in order to enforce rlimit.nproc).

I rest my case.

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk