Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 30 Sep 2000 16:23:29 +0200 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.17 --- extreme format string weirdness in /proc |
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On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 03:09:10PM +0100, Nix wrote:
> Yesterday, I noticed that netstat had stopped working on my 2.2.17 box > The reason is fairly self-evident: > > : loki:/# cat /proc/net/dev ... > : lo:%lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu > : eth0:%lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu > > Probably not right. > > This is repeated in other files (I only checked /proc; its
This could be explained by a single-bit corruption of your kernel, namely if the place where printk tests a format character against '%' is broken. Maybe the '%' is bad, or maybe the comparison instruction. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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