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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:31217 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1055 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!olivea!uunet!pipex!marble.uknet.ac.uk!uknet!edcastle!dcs.ed.ac.uk!sct From: sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box? Message-ID: <SCT.93Mar25155522@garay.dcs.ed.ac.uk> Date: 25 Mar 93 15:55:22 GMT References: <CGD.93Mar23030821@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <hwr.732890376@snert.ka.sub.org> <SCT.93Mar23224452@belnahua.dcs.ed.ac.uk> <1993Mar24.215511.11113@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> Sender: cnews@dcs.ed.ac.uk (UseNet News Admin) Organization: University of Edinburgh Dept. of Computer Science, Scotland Lines: 21 In-Reply-To: bogstad@blaze.cs.jhu.edu's message of 24 Mar 93 21:55:11 GMT > Completely unsupported rumor follows... > I seem to recall hearing that there is a known race condition in the > minix-fs which can cause problems and that there was no intention to fix it > since in the long run the minix-fs was "going away" and triggering the bug > was thought to be difficult. Can somebody speak to this RUMOR please? The 0.99pl7 kernel introduced a feature where all filenames passed to the kernel are copied to kernel space before they are used; this hopefully (!) prevents any races due to the kernel trying to access filename data which is in swapped user memory. The double-filename bug was supposed to be due to exactly this kind of problem, so we may well have now seen the last of it. Cheers, Stephen Tweedie. --- Stephen Tweedie <sct@uk.ac.ed.dcs> (Internet: <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>) Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.