Dave Huang wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Nick Hudson wrote:
> > Simon Burge wrote:
> > > I see a core dump from tail when I try to tail a large (in this
> > > case 12MB) file that's on a nullfs mount.  I can tail a file on
> > > the underlying filesystem fine.  Are you using nullfs mounts?
> >
> > Actually, yes. It always cored when the file was being written to, but now it doesn't.
> 
> Using a -current kernel (with UBC)? mmap() is broken on some
> filesystems...
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2000/12/14/0001.html
> (I guess nullfs is on the list of bad filesystems too)...

I'm running 1.5. Sorry should have said this to begin with

NetBSD go61923 1.5 NetBSD 1.5 (GO61923) #0: Tue Nov 21 16:17:23 GMT 2000    
nick@kenny:/dsk/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.5/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GO61923 i386

Nick
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