Another weird bug

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Fri Nov 14 11:36:47 PST 2003


:Hi,
:
: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?
:
:Cheers,
:Emiel
:-- 

    The broken mkfifo was leaving vnodes locked, preventing
    the filesystem code from being able to flush them.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>





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