[BusyBox] insmod with uClibc mystery bugs

Matt Kraai kraai at alumni.carnegiemellon.edu
Wed Apr 25 16:33:55 UTC 2001


On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:30:39AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Tue Apr 24, 2001 at 03:26:06PM -0700, Larry Doolittle wrote:
> > I was more concerned that we or the kernel might have an
> > off-by-one error (if not now, at some future patch level),
> > and insmod would loop forever waiting for one more byte
> > to magically appear.
> 
> Ok.  This seems more plausible

Why are we working around a theoretical kernel bug?

Matt





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