Re: tty->count off in pre-2.0.31-1

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Thu, 5 Jun 1997 10:04:06 +0200 (MET DST)

On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Jon Lewis wrote:
>Jun 4 18:50:59 yoda kernel: Warning: dev (03:57) tty->count(1) !=
>#fd's(2) in release_dev
>
>If I'm reading the numbers right (03:57) is hex, so it's device ttyu7
>(3,87), then this happened during a telnet session about 12s after the
>person logged in. There was nothing interesting around this log entry.
>The telnet session lasted 30m.

I see this on 2.0.28 too. It doesn't seem to be harmful, as I reached an uptime
of 75 days (and then I had to reboot to add more memory).

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/m68k on Amiga          http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium