VBAD vnodes?

Ruslan Ermilov ru at FreeBSD.org
Fri Oct 13 14:41:22 PDT 2006


On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 01:43:38PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     These are almost certainly descriptors whos vnodes have been 
>     revoked with revoke().  This most commonly occurs on tty (or pty)
>     descriptors.  For example, if you logout of a tty session
>     with background processes running, the tty is revoked so
>     it can be reused and so the processes still running cannot mess
>     around with someone else who reuses the tty.
> 
I've tracked it down to vgonerel() in the kernel, but didn't think
it was so simple to reproduce.  Thanks a lot!  :-)


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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