netbsd-bugs: kern/30250: mknod VNOVAL weirdness

Subject: kern/30250: mknod VNOVAL weirdness
To: None <kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: None <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/17/2005 06:53:00

>Number:         30250
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       mknod VNOVAL weirdness
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue May 17 06:53:00 +0000 2005
>Originator:     YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
>Release:        NetBSD 3.99.3
>Organization:

>Environment:
	
	
System: NetBSD kaeru 3.99.3 NetBSD 3.99.3 (build.kaeru.xen) #83: Sun May 8 08:26:40 JST 2005 takashi@kaeru:/home/takashi/work/kernel/build.kaeru.xen i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
	see below.
>How-To-Repeat:
	# mknod xxx b 4095 1048575
	# ls -l xxx
	brw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  0, 0 May 17 15:45 xxx
>Fix:
	obsolete VNOVAL by introducing a mask member in vattr
	to indicate which members are valid.

	cf. PR/25539.

>Unformatted: