In article <028101c0d472$3168dcd0$d7342e0a@checker> you write:
>I'm currently porting NetBSD to an MPC860 (embedded PowerPC). It's
>runnning in multiuser mode now, booting as a diskless client.
>At first, all seemed fine with NFS, but I was unable to build
>a new pwd.db: each time I called pwd_mkdb, the first 4096 bytes
>in the pwd.db were zero.

[...]

>I can't figure how this bug can have anything to do with my port, but
>I can't exclude the possibility.

Well, I'm getting similar behaviour on arm26 (though I haven't pursued it as
far as you have), so I think the bug is in MI code.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/arm26               <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm26/>