On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 10:12:24 +1100, 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've been running 1.4P with SOFTDEP on an IPC for about a week
now.  'Real Soon Now' I'll actually try it.  :-)
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