Subject: Re: port-mac/88: Problem with latest kernel sources from sun-lamp.
To: None <briggs@cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu>
From: None <mw@eunet.ch>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 01/21/1994 17:02:50
> When I try to build the latest kernel from sun-lamp on my SE/30,
> the kernel fails to exec init.  It looks like the arguments are
> hosed when they are get to execve.  Has something changed in the
> copyin/copyout semantics, or in locore?

I had this problem too. Reason is, Chris calls copyinstr() in the new
exec code with a "pretty large" maximum buffer size, which is clearly
larger than the 64k supported by the original locore.s. I just added some
test statements to forcibly limit the maximum to 64k, and exec worked 
fine again.

-Markus

PS: hope to check in current sources today.
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