Re: "while :; do mkdir;cd mkdir;done"

James Mastros (root@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org)
Wed, 10 Dec 1997 23:22:58 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Guest section DW wrote:
>
> >: So why James Mastros had a filesystem panic
> >: after running the offending script?
> >
> >How should I know? You want to cure symptoms instead of bugs?
> >If it is reproducible, someone should investigate this panic,
> >and fix whatever is wrong. Having long names is not wrong.
>
Oh. Just to mention, one other time I tried this I got no other ill
effects, and one other time I got a bash-error ("report this to
bash-maintainers@prep.mit.edu" - btw-that gave me a host not found bounce-if
anybody wants the error, mail me). I smell a memory scribble here.
2.1.71-flat.

-=- James Mastros

(And one other time, I got un-related messages about holes in a loop-back
mount.)

>
> Andrea[s] Arcangeli
>

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