Bad bug with 2.0.35 NFS (RedHat 5.1 updates)

Perry Harrington (pedward@sun4.apsoft.com)
Mon, 12 Oct 1998 12:27:03 -0700 (PDT)

I was building a program under linux just a few minutes ago, ran
the program, which ran the machine out of memory, and suddenlt all
the files that were in the directory I was in, were gone! Except
for the binary I was running.

This is hardly cool. You can reproduce this with the redhat 5.1
updates kernel and simply doing a build on an NFS mounted fs.
The progam you run should fork a zillion children and temporarily
run the system out of memory.

This was as a regular user, PPro 180 with 128MB of RAM. I verified
that the Ultra 5 NFS server no longer had any files in the directory.

This is REALLY bad, it's a good thing the source I was editing was
in a VPATH and not the current directory!!!!

Please contact me if any further info is needed.

--Perry

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Perry Harrington       Linux rules all OSes.    APSoft      ()
email: perry@apsoft.com 			Think Blue. /\


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