Subject: Re: port-xen/29887: sysctl kern.consdev coredumps
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 06/23/2005 17:08:28
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On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 09:23:11AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 12:19:47PM +0900, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> > i meant "because the idea to produce (null) and suppress coredump is
> > fundamentally bad."
>=20
> I agree. We would not start mapping a userspace address at VA 0 again, to=
 stop
> dereferences of NULL pointers to core, right?

Maybe applications that want (null) to be printed should mmap a page
starting with the string "(null)" to that address. ;-)

	-is

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