kern/98064: Crash with FIFOs (named pipes) and truncate()
Maxim Konovalov
maxim at macomnet.ru
Mon May 29 03:20:14 PDT 2006
The following reply was made to PR kern/98064; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Maxim Konovalov <maxim at macomnet.ru>
To: Bruce Evans <bde at zeta.org.au>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/98064: Crash with FIFOs (named pipes) and truncate()
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 14:16:31 +0400 (MSD)
Hi Bruce,
> I have used used the following fixes in this area for many years. They
> make truncate() on a fifo and some other file types always succeed
> instead of wandering off into UFS_TRUNCATE() (which is always (?)
> ffs_truncate()) and tending to cause panics there.
[...]
Why doesn't RELENG_4 suffer from this? The code of ufs_setattr() is
very similar there.
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Maxim Konovalov
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