From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
To: lucio@proxima.alt.za, 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] lock diagnostics on Fossil server
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:31:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7e60107b49c4d164c977e1de7a701967@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101026134509.GD3068@fangle.proxima.alt.za>
> I was hoping you'd follow up on that, I needed a seed message and my
> mailbox has recently overflowed :-(
>
> I'm curious what you call "crash" in this case and I think Cinap is too.
> Basically, exactly what happens in the situation when a nil pointer is
> dereferenced in the kernel? How does the kernel survive and slip into
> a locked situation?
good point. usually you get a panic message, registers and a stack
dump. i may be recalling the problem incorrectly.
> I really appreciate the fix, it certainly had the desired effect.
well, that's good.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-26 14:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-24 12:20 Lucio De Re
2010-10-25 13:20 ` erik quanstrom
2010-10-25 14:35 ` Lucio De Re
2010-10-26 2:01 ` cinap_lenrek
2010-10-26 12:44 ` erik quanstrom
2010-10-26 13:45 ` Lucio De Re
2010-10-26 14:31 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2010-10-26 14:28 ` Russ Cox
2010-10-26 14:48 ` erik quanstrom
2010-10-26 16:27 ` Lucio De Re
2010-10-26 17:01 ` erik quanstrom
2010-10-27 3:03 ` lucio
2010-10-27 4:14 ` erik quanstrom
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