Silly me , I was wondering what happen to you . I vote that your commit
priviliges should not be taken away by the "Dark Side" of core and
should be re-instated.

Also wondering if this is perhaps a good time to split up FreeBSD
along commercial / professional lines -- we can leave the silly
core group along and proceed forward with a business model.

    Cheers,
    Amancio




Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     I'm not surprised.  I think this is similar to the other known NFS panics.
>     I haven't had a chance to reproduce it yet ( may not be able to until
>     after USENIX ).
>
>     I have to say, though, that in order to fix these bugs I really do need
>     my commit privs back.  If people want these things fixed, complain to 
> core.
>     I have the time to fix the bugs with commit privs, but I just don't have
>     the time or inclination to fix them without.  It is just too much stress
>     keeping a patch that should be committed in a day or two on the table for
>     two weeks and then have to beg people to deal with it.  I am getting
>     wholely sick and tired of it, and I have better things to do then try
>     to maintain a pipeline of fixes that constantly get stopped up.  I *want*
>     to fix these and other bugs, but I am effectively being prevented from
>     doing so because some core members freak out over the speed at which I
>     program and the amount of rewriting I sometimes do.  I will point out that
>     all the rewriting I've done so far has been to the ultimate benefit of
>     the project in hind sight, resulting in better commented, cleaner,
>     and more reliable code and catching more bugs.
>
>                                         -Matt
>                                         Matthew Dillon
>                                         <dil...@backplane.com>
>
> :Our home directory NFS server went down again today, "same bat-panic".
> :This time it went down on ".Maillock" (usually it goes down on a netscape
> :cache file or .Xauthorit-c.  Piecing some more together I modified my old
> :"crash_patoot.c" file (which didn't cause any problems), to the new and
> :improved version that does.
> :
> :This is our environment:
> :FreeBSD NFS server running 3.2-STABLE from 1.5 to 2 weeks ago. Multiple
> :client machines of multiple architectures (Solaris 2.6, Irix 6.5.2+, FreeBSB
> :3.2+).  These crashes were all reproduced with a Solaris client, I do not 
> know
> :if it is reproduceable with other clients.   Below is the short code segment
> :that will cause the crash, the additions I added to it to cause the crash
> :were rename(2) and unlink(2), without those I could not get a crash.
> :
> :Also, available upon request is a packet dump of all traffic to/from that
> :machine leading to the crash (it is only 198336 bytes long, it was
> :captured with '-s 1500' with tcpdump).
> :
> :Without further ado crash_patoot.c:
> :int main(int argc, char **argv)
> :{
> :        int fd;
> :        int counter;
> :        char newfilename[1024];
> :
> :        strcpy(newfilename,argv[1]);
> :        strcat(newfilename,".old");
> :        for(counter=0;counter<1000000;counter++) {
> :                fd=open(argv[1], O_CREAT, 600);
> :                write(fd, &counter,4);
> :                rename(argv[1], newfilename);
> :                close(fd);
> :                rename(newfilename, argv[1]);
> :                fd=open(newfilename, O_CREAT,600);
> :                unlink(newfilename);
> :                close(fd);
> :                fd=open(newfilename, O_CREAT,600);
> :                close(fd);
> :                unlink(newfilename);
> :        }
> :        return 0;
> :}
> :
> :If you are able to reproduce this panic please let me know.  I want to be
> :assured I am not going out of my mind.  I am attempting to dig through the 
> NFS
> :code to try to find the bug myself, but it is a daunting task.
> :
> :--
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