> I was hoping you'd follow up on that, I needed a seed message and my
> mailbox has recently overflowed :-(
> 
> I'm curious what you call "crash" in this case and I think Cinap is too.
> Basically, exactly what happens in the situation when a nil pointer is
> dereferenced in the kernel?  How does the kernel survive and slip into
> a locked situation?

good point.  usually you get a panic message, registers and a stack
dump.  i may be recalling the problem incorrectly.

> I really appreciate the fix, it certainly had the desired effect.

well, that's good.

- erik

Reply via email to