2011/9/21 johnw <johnw.m...@gmail.com>: > Hi, i see it in dmesg > bsdbox /bsd: pid 9648 (mlnet): user write of 4096@0x202d4000 at 5328 > failed: 14 > > what is this mean?
14 == EFAULT. Sounds like that process (mlnet) passed a system call a memory address for the kernel to write to (for example, to return a socket address in accept(), or file data in read()) that wasn't actually writable by that process, whether because it wasn't validly mapped, was kernel memory, or was mapped but read-only. That's an utter guess from a single line taken out of context, so it may be completely wrong. You provided no standard info (not even platform? hello?), so I won't waste time looking for details. Philip Guenther
