In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Dillon w
rites:
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>:In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Dillon w
>:rites:
>:>    This commit is crashing my -current box on boot when it
>:>    goes to check for a core.  I get the panic:
>:>
>:>    "Negative bio_offset (-1024) on bio ..."
>:>
>:>    Userland probably should not be allowed to panic the box
>:>    in that way.
>:
>:Backtrace ?
>:
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>:Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
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>    userland read() system call from savecore running through
>    the standard sequence to read from a physical device, then
>    panicing in geom.  I don't have the serial console connected
>    to that machine but I'll try to reproduce it in a little while
>    and manually transcribe the backtrace.

Why would savecore seek to a negative index ?

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