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Re: A bug in boot?


From: Da Zheng
Subject: Re: A bug in boot?
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:10:40 +0000
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Samuel Thibault wrote:
Hello,

Da Zheng, le Sat 03 Jan 2009 00:22:25 +0000, a écrit :
The data passed to ds_device_write() as an argument is an out-of-line data in the message, and I think it's the receiver's responsibility to deallocate the memory.

It'd be better to be sure of this :)
I don't know that stuff so much.  All I know is that gnumach doesn't
deallocate the memory in such case, and I guess it's fine because else
I doubt the buildds would not be able to build so much stuff without
crashing :)
since gnumach doesn't deallocate the memory, someone has to do it.
actually, device_write() is used very rarely. subhurd opens almost all devices directly, so no data goes through boot.
The only two exceptions are console and pseudo-root.
However, the data written to the console is done by device_write_inband() where the data is transferred inside the message.
Even now I still don't know how pseudo-root is used.

so buildds cannot prove anything in this case.

Zheng Da




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