On Friday 29 April 2005 04:53 pm, Blaisorblade wrote:
> While doing other stuff, I've understood how UML reaches that code:
>
> hostfs_read_sb->get_sb_nodev->set_anon_super()->idr_XXX. However, I can't
> understand why the hell UML could have bugs in this path. Probably running
> it with a root hostfs will trigger this, but for now I haven't the time to
> play with this.

I have a vague recollection that running UML not just with a root hostfs but 
as the root user on the host made the problem more likely to occur.  (Don't 
know if that's actually necessary to reproduce or not, and don't have free 
space on my laptop to compile up a copy just now...)

> Also, I've seen somebody else with a "idr" problem, related to devpts
> (recent posts, titled "ssh again" IIRC). Still I don't understand what's
> going on.

Rob


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