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Copyright (c) Digital Equipment Corporation 1997.  All rights reserved.

PRODUCT:    OpenVMS Alpha, Version 7.0

COMPONENT:  SYS$CTDRIVER.EXE

SOURCE:     Digital Equipment Corporation

ECO INFORMATION:

     ECO Kit Name:  ALPRTPA01_070
     ECO Kits Superseded by This ECO Kit:  None
     ECO Kit Approximate Size:  300 Blocks
     Kit Applies To:  OpenVMS Alpha V7.0
     System/Cluster Reboot Necessary:  Yes

     Installation Rating:  1 - To be installed on all systems running
                               the listed version(s) of OpenVMS.

     NOTE:  In order to receive the full fixes listed in this kit,
            the following remedial kits also need to be installed:

                 None


ECO KIT SUMMARY:

An ECO kit exists for CTDRIVER.EXE on OpenVMS Alpha V7.0.  This kit
addresses the following problems:

Problems Addressed in the ALPRTPA01_070 Kit:

  o  If there is an I/O error, then there is an attempt to remove the
     current Interrupt Request Packet (IRP).  If there is a buffer
     associated with this IRP, then the buffer is deallocated.  But,
     before the IRP itself is removed, the caller is returned and the IRP
     is left hanging.  The user might see this as a loss of nonpaged
     pool.  Over a period of time this could exhaust the pool in the
     system.

  o  The user will see this in several different ways depending on how
     the registers R9 and/or R10 are being used.  The result could be a
     process hang or system crash.


RELATED ARTICLES:

Detailed articles describing the problems listed above may exist in the
OPENVMS database.  To view these articles, open the appropriate product
database and perform a query using either of the following search
strings: 'ALPRTPA01_070' or 'ALPRTPA'.


ECO KIT ORDERING INSTRUCTIONS:

If after an evaluation you wish to obtain this kit, request it
electronically using the appropriate Advanced Electronic Services
(AES) Service Tool.  If you are not familiar with how to request
kits electronically, open the DIA, WIS or DSNLINK database and
review the article entitled:

     [AES] How To Electronically Request ECO Kits Using Service Tools


INSTALLATION NOTES:

In order for the corrections in this kit to take effect, the system must
be rebooted.  If the system is a member of a VMScluster, the entire
cluster should be rebooted.
  
  ==========================================================================
  |                     Table of Kit Image Information                     |
  +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
  |                            | Overall  | Image File      | Image Link   |
  | Image Name                 | Checksum | Identification  | Date/Time    |
  +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
  | SYS$CTDRIVER.EXE           | 63B26705 | X-3             | 23-DEC-1996  |
  |                                       |                 | 13:11:03.31  |
  +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+