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From: auspex!guy@uunet.uu.net (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: System crashes
Keywords: SunOS
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Date: 31 Mar 89 00:06:08 GMT
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 >I think the program name (`diff' and `syslogd' in the report given) refers
 >to the process which was executing at the time of the error.

This is entirely correct.

 >If the error is really in an interrupt routine, the name of the current
 >process is a complete red herring.

Precisely.