> > This is possibly the infamous COW bug. > > The COW bug that is triggered by a COW from an LWS-CAS? The solution > to which is to use locks around the LWS-CAS even on UP? I'd forgotten > about this issue actually, I should push that patch out to James. I was actually thinking of the fork/clone race for which there are various testcases on the wiki. The aptitude segv is with a SMP kernel, so I don't think this is the UP LWS_CAS issue. However, I agree you should push the change. Dave -- J. David Anglin dave.anglin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx National Research Council of Canada (613) 990-0752 (FAX: 952-6602) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
