Subject: Re: Random SEGVs, an observation
To: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@panix.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 11/26/1998 23:31:25
On Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 02:20:43PM -0500, Charles M. Hannum wrote:
> 
> Ah, this is very interesting.
> 
> I think there is actually only one case where what you say can happen
> -- that being a fault causing a pagein over NFS.  In this case, the
> process will do synchronous network I/O, which goes through the code
> in uipc_socket.c that uses uiomove().

No.  This happened to me twice yesterday building Mozilla on a Shark with
a local IDE disk: cc1 got a SEGV, the kernel spat out the page fault message,
etc.  So if the problem is the above, then there's another very similar
problem, too.

-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
	"And where do all these highways go, now that we are free?"