Re: Nasty 2.1.70 fs problem

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Wed, 10 Dec 1997 12:36:27 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> >
> >The following commands (don't do this on a good fs):
> >cd /tmp
> >while [ 1 ] ; do mkdir foo ; cd foo ; done
>
> Apply the patch I posted some days ago before running the script and the
> script will stop after reach a PAGE_SIZE long pathname so you will be able
> to rm -r the full path.
>
> This is against 2.1.72:

[PATCH SNIPPED]

Okay! done. Will test.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Richard B. Johnson
Project Engineer
Analogic Corporation
Penguin : Linux version 2.1.70 on an i586 machine (66.15 BogoMips).
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