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Subject: Re: [9fans] problems with 8l
From: C H Forsyth <forsyth@vitanuova.com>
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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 16:02:49 +0100
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actually, based on some of the previous postings, i was starting to wonder
whether you might have something wrong with the underlying system.
the marshal error, for instance, was in the following
	d = dirfstat(fd);
	if(d == nil)
		return 0;
	rv = strcmp(d->name, "cons") == 0;
where d->name was nil, which looked unlikely when i checked dirfstat.

on an IBM Thinkpad T23, i found i needed to set maxmem to exclude
some peculiar NVRAM that's in the top of the address space, or i got
all manner of strange errors (with 3rd edition, and it's still set for 4th
so i'm unsure whether i still need it).  as another example, a system with
an AGP card that relied on stealing processor memory had trouble when
the borrowed memory was also allocated by the operating system.
finally, a machine with faulty memory produced the usual assortment of
unpredictable results.