On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 07:21:55PM +0100, Volker wrote: > On 02/18/08 19:04, Wesley Shields wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 09:25:29AM -0800, Peter Sanchez wrote: > >> On Feb 18, 2008, at 7:07 AM, Wesley Shields wrote: > >>> I tried this using /tmp/ as argv[1] and it didn't crash a 6.2 machine or > >>> a -current from a few weeks ago. Maybe the number of files has to be > >>> increased? I bumped it up to 100000 and tried on a 6.2 machine, but I > >>> ran out of inodes before I could induce a crash. :) > >>> > >>> Maybe I'm doing something wrong? > >> I believe the panic doesn't occur until boot. Did you reboot the box after > >> writing the files to /tmp? > >> > >> Peter > > > > I did on a 6.2 machine with 10000 files in /tmp. I can reboot the > > -current machine later tonight if you think it will make a difference. > > According to the problem report, it should panic while mounting the fs. > umount and re-mount /tmp and see, if you can make it panic (a reboot > shouldn't be necessary here).
I did exactly that and it did not panic on both a 6.2 and -current machine. Just to be sure, I did reboot a 6.2 machine with 10000 0-byte files in /tmp and it didn't panic. -- WXS _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
