Another weird bug

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Fri Nov 14 11:15:25 PST 2003


:>
:> Check this out:
:>
:> mothra# cd /tmp
:> mothra# mkdir test
:> mothra# cd test
:> mothra# mkfifo foo
:> mothra# ls
:> ^C^C^C^Z^Z^Z
:> [shell hangs]
:>
:> What the hell? And also, I get buffers that get given up on after doing
:> this. Is some filesystem thing screwed?
:
:
:Yes, looks like its hanging in col_conv... Which is apart of the 
:syscons code
:I wonder if some of the __P() macro cleanups yesterday disturbed 
:something.
:
:-DR

    Something definitely broke.  I'm betting it's the syscall separation
    code but a lot has gone in in the last two days.  I'm trying to track 
    it down now.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>





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