Hi Matthew, all,

On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, matthew green wrote:
> has anyone tried out softdep on the sparc?  i've twice now built a
> kernel (from todays, and about 2 weeks's ago's sources) and when i
> attempted to boot a kernel with `options SOFTDEP' (but nothing in
> my filesystems changed!), it seems to reliably crash doing a chmod()
> operation.  this happens on the first chmod that the chmod of pty's
> in /etc/rc does on a typical boot, however, if i change this to be
> "ktruss chmod ..." (so i see the syscalls as they happen), then it
> does *not* crash.  it will, however, die later on a chmod that is
> not being ptraced...
> 
> i do not have useful trace information on what was happening here..
> i might build a kernel with UVM history enabled so i can see what
> was happening recently...

You mean you could compile it at all??? NetBSD/arm32 (-current, yesterday)
doens't compile with this option ... it will give massive linking errors.
Even when started with an empty directory + configure...

Cheers,

Reinoud