Re: dmesg: write fail ??

2011-09-22 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2011-09-22, Philip Guenther guent...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: dmesg: write fail ??

2011-09-22 Thread Brynet
It seems to be from coredump_write(), in kern/kern_sig.c. The printf itself is conditional though. Perhaps you're both seeing it when the kernel doesn't have enough resources to generate a core dump? That makes sense for chrome. I guess someone figured if they couldn't write the core, make

Re: dmesg: write fail ??

2011-09-21 Thread Philip Guenther
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