Re: [Bug 218] Probable mmap() bug that breaks cpp-3.2

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 15:38, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 11:18:02AM -0800, bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > This appears to have been a case of a filesystem setup while the
> > mapcheck bug was present. Since running mapcheck on the machine
> > there has been no-reoccurence.
> 
> mapcheck is required to fix this?
> 
> doesn't this mean a malicious user and cause this lockup still?

Nope, the problem was this filesystem was last running a kernel from
the time period where that bug was present. So there were a bunch of
files in this state. Running mapcheck cleaned up the filesystems,
and a new kernel cleaned up the bug.

Steve


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