Some sharp-eyed people noticed something missing from an error-return path in vfs_open. Patch follows, will be posted on the web site, etc.: Index: src/kern/fs/vfs/vfspath.c =================================================================== RCS file: /disk/disk0/cs161/CVSREPO/os161/src/kern/fs/vfs/vfspath.c,v retrieving revision 1.5 diff -u -r1.5 vfspath.c --- vfspath.c 2001/09/18 22:19:20 1.5 +++ vfspath.c 2002/04/16 23:40:49 @@ -74,6 +74,14 @@ result = VOP_TRUNCATE(vn, 0); } if (result) { + int result2 = VOP_DECOPEN(vn); + if (result2) { + /* Blah. What else can we do? */ + panic("vfs_open: Error %d from VOP_DECOPEN " + "trying to recover from\n" + "error %d handling O_TRUNC\n", + result2, result); + } VOP_DECREF(vn); return result; } -- - David A. Holland / dholland(a)eecs.harvard.edu