Re: kern/47062: panic: kernel diagnostic assertion "lwpcnt >= 0" failed: file "/usr/src/sys/kern/kern_uidinfo.c", line 217

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/47062; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>
To: <gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
Cc: <kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost>, <gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost>,
 <netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: kern/47062: panic: kernel diagnostic assertion "lwpcnt
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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 21:27:38 +0100

 On 12/10/2012 20:40, Thomas Klausner wrote:
 >  I've heard multiple times that hald is not save and causes panics. 
 > It
 >  did at one point for me as well (though it had worked some time ago 
 > as
 >  well) and I've since disabled it.
 
 Regardless of how safe or unsafe it is, no userspace process should be 
 able to panic the kernel.