Aucbvax.110 NET.v7bugs utzoo!duke!vax135!ucbvax!mark Sun May 18 22:56:30 1980 exece >From bill Mon Dec 31 14:37:09 1979 To: v7bugs Subject: bug in exece() Cc: tbl jfr mhtsa!ted there is a nasty bug in exece() (which appeared in 50 changes) after the bp = bread(swapdev, (daddr_t)(dbtofsb(swplo+bno)+(nc>>BSHIFT))); put bp->b_flags &= ~B_DELWRI; else the buffer may stay in the cache with DELWRI set and clobber a random block in the swap area at some later time. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.