Re: 2.1.65: sync (ext2) broken.

Myrdraal (myrdraal@jackalz.dyn.ml.org)
Wed, 19 Nov 1997 12:10:13 -0500


On Wed, Nov 19, 1997 at 04:08:05PM +0100, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
Hi,
> Just installed 2.1.65...
> Everything works fine, until some program issues a sync() command, which
> causes the program to hang forever, I can't even kill (or kill -9) it from
> a different tty.
> It happens even with the following code:
> main()
> {
> sync();
> }
I can't duplicate that problem with 'sync' at the commandline, or the
example program.
(root@jackalz):/# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.1.65 (root@jackalz) (gcc version egcs-2.90.17 971114 (gcc2-970802 experimental)) #1 Tue Nov 18 02:28:37 EST 1997
-Myrdraal